to have no one to blame.
No room to complain
when the last minute
revelation hits and you stop,
ya just quit and sit, try
to forget. The pitcher is empty.
Not a drop, not a lick, nothing
to slide down your gullet
to moisten the road thru 15ft
of murky tests and scholastic
achievements. Red tape
bureaucracy counting,
segregating, keeping hard
copy. Regardless the governmental
systems' built-in deficiencies
there's no one to blame when
the pitcher is empty and you
were the last to pour a glass.