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.Today,
I'd rather not
hear about
how marriage and parenthood
are such wonderful blessings
I’d rather
the Mariner pitching staff
warm-up using pool balls
with my crotch as the strike zone.Today
pictures of fat cats
forwarded by friends
on other continents
and punk rock songs
I listened to in high school
will have to be enough
to keep me from
thinking of you
and wondering
if the stories
about a new Jerusalem
and reunions
on the other side of the Jordan
are true.
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