KICKING THE BAR EXAM'S ASS

KICKING THE BAR EXAM'S ASS "I'm gonna kick the bar's ass! No matter how difficult it may be. Let it be dripping with issues. Let it be saturated with exceptions. Let it be written in Japanese! I'm gonna kick its ass! My mother has prayed too long, too hard. My father has worked too long, too hard. I have studied too long, too hard! I'm gonna kick its ass, so help me God!" [i wrote the above self-exhortative poem the night before the Missouri Bar examination in February 1977. Forty years ago! It was brought back to mind, as I read of a similar engineering examination and very kindred exhortation experience in THE DARK CHILD (1954) by Camara Laye, tonight. He passed. And I passed! What a mighty God!]