The teachers are striking
those were the facts.
And the parents grumbled, and the students sighed,
and the school board rolled its eyes
and laughed
Two years,
no contract.
The governor, he has given to political friends, to his campaign ads
to the prisons.
But the schools!
No, this budget-slashing man
this well intentioned
but selfish man
he makes it so my textbook in health
still calls them "VD's"
and that my friend Lauren
has to sit beneath the drip drip drip of a leaky roof bouncing off the desks
So the teachers are striking
and the board can do nothing
less money
and **** poor planning
that's all


Well,
I hear at least
prison quality has improved.