If I Were in Charge
From: Did You See What I Saw:
Poems about school.
By: Kay Winters
Published by: Viking

Waiting in line,
a long thin line,
takes time
every day
from our play.
We start
Then we stop
while we
straighten our line
missing more time
on the way.


Image adapted from an original by Martha Western

Why can't we bunch
as we go to our lunch?
Or walk in a group
for our soup?
There's a rule
in each school
about standing in line,
a stupid straight line.
I resign!

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