Unloved Campus Building
Unloved campus building
Neglected step-child
Does anyone have a
Tender watercolor of you
Framed on the fridge
In construction paper?
Does the architect stay
Up at night thinking of
His or her crimes the
Fissures in the concrete
The handicapped bathroom
That opens on the staircase
The air shaft that vents
From the garbage bay
The way every secretary’s
Office lacks light
The door to nowhere but the
Closed conscience of the builder
The windy public pavilion that
Dreams of Mussolini
When the wrecker comes
Who will weep for you
Will remember the rush of
Concrete into the rebar
The golden shovel shown
On the basement wall
–Ticky Kennedy
Poet in Residence
SchoolNewsToday.com
NOTE
“Workers in windowless offices are less happy, less healthy and more stressed than their colleagues with steady sources of daylight, an extensive body of research says.” Daylight, Windows and Workers’ Well-being: Research Review.
Painting “Ward Chipman Library,” by Paul Cusack.
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