To The Full Time Student In The College Of Law... Poem by RIC BASTASA

as you were taking the midterm examination
on double jeopardy and
search and seizures i was looking at you
closely,

you are so lucky to have with you
supportive parents, friends,
you have all the recent books, the
latest car, the personal computer
the laptop that you carry,
the complicated cell phone

then you were swinging your head
rolling your eyes and scratching your head
on such a hard examination as you claim it to be

beside you is Dan, working student,
poor family, dead father, mother is a plain housewife,
and why on earth is he doing well
in fact, excelling in this endeavor....

such an irony, but i am not surprised
i've been there.

seeing myself in Dan.