says failure
is just a word

He never gave up
did the 62-year-old
(pictured next door
to a 101-year-old woman)

Eric Atmore it is
he who puts children
and early childhood development
first

perceived a failure he was
at that place called school
where one too often learns
despite and in spite of it

The Graduate
graduates
whilst under our noses
parents and minders
brutalise and slaughter
the planet’s young

whilst politicians politrick
(passing the service delivery buck)
and besuited ones rat on one another

The Graduate
graduates
never too old to learn
though encouraged to be
a drop-out after failing
his first university year

he once more quotes
the country’s first president
on reading everything
and anything

The Graduate
graduated