Study to the Test
by John Vergis
Among castaways, swallowed by an eddy of life in a cosmic ocean,
in a midsize port city in middle America,
lives me, a medical student that studies to pass exams.
I espoused pursuit ever since I first uttered “doctor.”
The emotional equivalent of Penrose Stairs,
bookended by understanding that I understand nothing.
Bookend after bookend,
during my purchase of knowledge
I could scarcely breathe.
An ancient and sacred prayer,
reduced to the level of a pittance.
The very image of being self-absorbed.
I might be punished:
for flippantly plundering the interstice between the familiar and the fabled,
mocking the aspiration of multitudes over millennia.
Should I transgress
this Oath and violate it,
may the opposite be my fate.
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John Vergis is a first-year medical student at the UTCOMLS.
