Still Open Thursday

[Verse]

The grant came back denied in a PDF at 4:15,

one paragraph, no signature, a link to try again in spring.

We had thirty-one kids on a roster and a room with decent heat,

a keyboard with two dead keys and a rug somebody gave for free.

Board voted to suspend, and that is not a villain, that is math.

I said, I hear you, and I'm keeping Thursday, and I took the long way past

the room where we'd been meeting, and I stacked the chairs myself,