Testing, Testing, One, Two, Three

There is a question within a question and if you answer all the questions correctly you begin to believe you are finally a citizen, valid, stamped, and safe.  It is not so.  The test changes.  It does not necessarily get more difficult, but it will become more of a test.  That means sweat, possible failure, and possible glory.  It is almost the same as fighting in a war.  A test will become the goal and the outcome--dead body count.  One of those dead may be your teacher.  The war she/he is fighting is also like the test you take.  It is mingled in antics, accounts, boasts of bravery.  Glory or defeat.  Arbitrariness.  Another contract for another year.  There are some moments of peace.  For instance, when a book is opened and read.  The test is not contained within and the answers are not apparent.  The things that cannot possibly be tested but fought over in the gravel parking lot.  Well, I forgot to say that there is some money involved.  A whole lot of it.