Monday, 30 December 2013

30th. December 2013 – 16:30: Ode to Question 42.

The ocean as your syllabus, three days of battle was to be settled by the pen as it now rolled like thunder across the pages of the final exam, vague, random, wet and devastating, enumerating your shipwrecked and sequestrated misfortune with every answer that emanated from a scattered and troubled brain, dripping with a fear that never dies, even with experience. Last night's cram was now a forgotten fugacity.

After two hours of trapped creativity, stripped of all imagination, you finally lean back in your seat, gnashing your teeth. You see your last answers jump out screaming at you, then exhaling in a sigh. You know that you've made a mistake in question 42. Will that be the question that you need to get across the line?

Your instructor marks your exam. At question 42 an eyebrow raises, terrorising your heart which leaps against your chest. Another eyebrow pointing skyward. "Hmm! you got question 45....right, nobody gets that one". Stay of execution eminent. He reaches for his calculator; this can't be good. What 88%? Why not 100%? That's what I got for the last test. Oh! Question 42. Now if I were sitting on the pavement at the side of the road at Candidasa instead of a chair beside the pool...

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