Lunch Money

Old School

Lunch in middle school used to be reduced to 20 cents

we got a good meal and a cup of milk

Warm with green beans and a slice of ham

Mother gave to me 20 cents

So I would have no change

Me being young I would give it away

To a needy child or so I thought

So Mother knowing her son

was being made the fool

at the local middle school

Tried to hold on to that extra nickel

He would give away to a friend in need

Lunch money was hard to come by

so it seems but I learn a lot

from my middle school pals

Never got my nickels back

They were for the needy

and I was needy too.

Reviews

[Kathy Van Kurin]

simpleminds,
Children's outlook in an adult world; we can just identify having the memories of this time. Now it seem like forever ago. I remember hot lunches and how special to sometime have that days payment for decision made from the monthly school changes. My grandma was a school cook so we knew it was so good. Wonderful stroll down memory lane...............Kathy .........My poems are about nature. Maybe I will branch out enentually.