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UPON HEARING ABOUT ELEVEN SCHOOLS
BEING CLOSED IN THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY
Money. The same problem again!
There is never enough money
to keep the schools running---
schools in poor neighborhood, mind you!
The superintendent admitted
with a graceful smile before PowerPoint
The government funding is short &
Education is way down on the list
The wisdom of the forefathers’
has gone to the dogs!
In a dark alley---this was on the same
news channel---a fifth grader shot a third grader
during a kiddo fight, leaving
the ten-year-old dead behind
Girls & Boys Club
For a person like me---too naïve
to spend time pondering money---
I am puzzled by the imbalanced
equation between the billions spent
on killing machines operated by young
handsome American soldiers and a drop
in a bucket on children’s future . . .
Kids are killing each other for a kick!
This is the future we are facing!
This is how they react to the glorified bullshit!
This is the way boys are raised in the 21st century!
This is the crime we’re all involved in!
This is a slap on the face of Freedom!
This is how they spit on the face of God!
Next time, when you hear a rich bastard
talking nonsense about your bright future
and your children’s bright future, or even
your pleasant afterlife in a Wal-Mart underworld
make sure look into his eyes and tell him:
Shove your money up your ass and take it
to your gated paradise the day you die!
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