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Hunger
January 9, 2011
Every day, I get up and go to school. Hunger surrounds the high school. Hunger in the morning-- skipped breakfast because I got up late because I was up late working on homework. No money for lunch. I spend the day hungry. I don’t qualify for free lunch. My stomach rumbles.
I am the hungry. But you won’t feed me.
I take the tests to merit federal funding.
I am hungry and tired. I am not being treated like a human being-- I am being treated like a product. A commodity item sitting on a shelf.
© Demetrius A., Ft. Meade, MD
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wordsoflife SILVER said...
on Feb. 11 2011 at 11:59 am
If your parents aren't giving you money for food, they should be put in jail! That's child abuse.
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Thank you for the concern! My parents are amazing, and definately not jail-worthy.
But "hunger" was metaphorical. It's addressing the "hunger" to learn something other than what's on the state-mandated curriculum in the state that I live in.