National Education Week - 10,000 Maniacs

Honor salute and speak To the

Corner standing flag Do you remember how the days of school were

Indivisible separate worlds Compare contrast These dreams absurd

Placid classroom faces Breathe in the features Of a demographics death

Map trilogy Children read them well Not to bury 3 of 4 sons As the

Likes of chivalry Not to take 6 of 30 bills To manufacture Corpus

Christi And so you think it can be so serene History’s most

Intolerable famine Has clutched our global tranquility Reaped the

Lives of children Maladies collaborate With cyclic despair Infanticide

Clamors to 20 times more In 4th and 5th Worlds The poor have always