I should have known

Things have a way of repeating themselves.  Still... I was not expecting the foray into professional counseling would bear such a startling resemblance to the ordination process.  It seems I will have to follow a different path here as well.

I should have known:

This foray into licensing

With rules that change regularly

Regarding

What counts,

How to count,

And who does

The counting;

This foray

Is strangely reminiscent

Of the way things were counted

In my twenties.

Thirty years later

I recognize the boundaries

Of this potter*s field.

Here

There are even fewer things

That count.

Yes, I should have known.

Clearly

I should have known.