Not done - v2

No, I'm not done

I am not finished

I have not to do

Not nearly done,

not yet, not today

The exam has not come

The fat lady has not sung

The battle not yet won

The race not yet done

Studying still

Until, unless

Time is called

and I must go

To the room,

Make the best of it

For the Fat Lady

And await

My fate

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Edited November 16, 2018

Not Done – v2

7/11/04 14:36

Not Done

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/not-done.html

to preemptively answer the question of Shoshanna and Elizabeth, who keep asking me every time I go to church if I have taken my Bar Exam yet…

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Sisyphean – v2

Studying for the Bar,

Like Sisyphus of old -

Pushing the same rock

Up the same hill

Day upon day.

Maintaining momentum

So it doesn’t roll over me

Turning the pages

A new chapter, new law

Sinking in deeper somehow.

Never seeing the end,

Save for the date,

To the mountain to learn,

Process, cast off,

Truth buried deep.

Difficult days, weeks, months

Needing connection

The one course, Law.

Punishment for what secret,

What truth did I divulge?

Hopefully, an end, in a few days

For my task, my chore, my penance,

Unlike Sisyphus, who is at it still

Ever taking the Bar

No rest, no relief.

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edited November 4, 2018

Sisyphean – v2

July 16, 2004

Sisyphean

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/sisyphean.html

(Maybe that’s what Feinberg is doing,

State upon state.)

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Sisyphean

Studying for the Bar,
Like Sisyphus of old -
Pushing the same rock
Up the same hill
Day upon day
Maintaining momentum
So it doesn’t roll over me

Never seeing the end,
Save for the date,
To the mountain to learn,
Process, cast off.

Difficult day, week, month
Punishment for what secret,
What truth did I divulge?

Hopefully, an end, in a few days
For my task, my chore, my penance,
Unlike Sisyphus, who is at it still
Ever taking the Bar

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edited November 4, 2018

Sisyphean – v2

July 16, 2004

Sisyphean

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/sisyphean.html

(Maybe that’s what Feinberg is doing,

State upon state.)

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