Testing

 Waiting for a test

Echo - cardio - gram

Sound - heart - measure: A sound that tests the heart

At 70+ tests differ from those in my youth

At 17 I took the SAT (or was I 16?)

A door to the college of my choice

If we had stayed in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia then)

Age 16 would have seen the GCE -- 'O' Levels, they called it

I wonder how I would have done

I remember Secondary School -- Hamilton High, the Thistle

General Cambridge Exams (GCE)

Ordinary Level (O Levels )

Five subjects perhaps?

English Composition

English Literature

French (or maybe Latin)

Maths

Science (Biology, Chemistry, Physics)

Would I have gotten the requisite results?

Would I have qualified for university?

No one knows -- nor can know

I do know that I needed another five years to grow up before such a test

Life in Pennsylvania saved me from ignominy, perhaps

Now I wait for another test:

Heart, kidneys, Paul's gently named "those members we think less respectable" and remain covered, eyes, arthritis

Tests and more tests

I wonder if I'll pass?