Found Poem

To Decry An Assault

On public education
Day of Action!
Canceled classes,
ordered furloughs and layoffs,
unprecedented student fee increases.
Walk out.
Larger classes,
cancellations of art, music, physical education
destroy the education system,
wreck the economic viability of the state.
Schwarzenegger
shifting some money from prisons;
Build up of frustration—
Just a set of numbers
on paper.
We consider ourselves like
Harvard or Yale;
120 faculty off their duff
to Sacramento…
unprecedented.

Rivera, Carla, "Ralies Target School Cuts:" The Los Angeles Times, Thursday, March 4, 2010, AA1