For Every 7 Seats (A School Library)

for every 7 seats
in the 68,000 CT stadium
a brand new fully-stocked
school library

for every 7 seats
in our R4,5 billion stadium
a brand new fully-stocked
school library

a 68,000 person capacity
68,000 employed people
68,000 people native
to this very colony

our R4,5 billion stadium
did it bring decent jobs
has it fed our hungry
and healed the sick

for every 7 seats
a school library
fully-stocked like
a politicians cellar

(out here down South
a school library is not
even ranked higher
than our football team)

for every 7 seats
how many more poor
how many more unemployed
how many more deprived
of the promised land

for every 7 seats

Equal Educations fact of the day got this one going, in preparation for their Equal Education - Human Rights Concert and March for School Libraries.

David Kapp, david_kapp@yahoo.com