National Education Week

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 been
 beside us
 amid us
 death has always been
 as million cease 15 million that's an annual reap
 add divide multiply sum 41 thousand!