#177 ‘You will have a miserable life if you do not
get an education – Marcia Langton, 27 June 2016’
The books have
gone home with the children.
The seedy basket
grass has been collected.
The Brolgas have
been counted.
The boys have
filled their bike with fuel.
The teachers
have the alphabet on the wall.
People come to
sift through boxes of old photos.
The salt wattle
shield has been sanded.
The map of this
place is up on the wall.
The twisted cars
pile up outside the town.
Who knows what
the young men do all day?
Marcia Langton says
it as bluntly as she can.
The children
have their certificates,
though some have
lost them in the dust.
We go by
increments, just as the day does.
The
patient books have gone home with their children.
Beat me to it! I was thinking of writing on her impassioned plea myself. You have underlined it very well.
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