Doing It By the Numbers

DOING IT BY THE NUMBERS 9:30 and time for first class 23 students for double math for 80 minutes Then 15 minute break 430 boys and girls eating 568 choc bars and Can drink 408 cans of coke Finish, line up - in 13 straight lines please Next is Class 5C for Tech Drawing Lunch 30 minutes – but I check work Supervision of tables, dinner and mathematical, Now 6A goes to Room 4B – don’t forget English – learn 6 lines of Shakespeare’s sonnet Write 10 lines when you’ve done it Tired now – need 40 winks Time for bell o’clock at 4 – thank God 430 uniformed learners leave the gate Outside the gate dandelions sprawl In all the cracks in the crumbling wall.