To pass the Bar exam
it took him six months
of twelve to fourteen hour days
reading dry books
on top of the years
he spent on law degrees
Looking out the passenger window
at the sun setting on Boundary Bay
he references Tolkien:
You know the boats that the Teleri created,
the kind of work that could never be repeated
because they built themselves into the ships,
that was my Bar exam
I nodded in agreement
and quietly thanked the good Lord
for my marathon of singleness.
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