Free School Meals
Empty
bellies leave young minds malnourished,
A famine of
learning that’s all too rife,
Starving
children of their chances for life,
Who might
well, properly fed, have flourished.
Free school
meals then? Except, nothing is free
For this
world in which all necessities
Have a
price, and hunger is a dis-ease
Caused not
by a lack of food, but money.
Capital,
driven by insatiable greed,
Will not,
shall not finance gratuitous fare
If it can’t
claw back the cost from elsewhere,
Driven to
meet profit’s demands, not need.
For now,
only air is an oddity,
Not made and
sold as a commodity.
D. A.
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