a day off of work
 for three hours with students
 plus!–small donation
 
 refugees’ lives
 summarized in two chapters,
 questions that plague them
 
 if they saw their day,
 their actual student day,
 they might learn something
 
 instead, they murmur
 over plot complexities
 and students’ English
 
 they might realize,
 when to mansions they return,
 the true complex plot:
 
 they can’t give answers
 to high school reading questions
 nor inequity
 
 work, in equities:
 invest in students, not stocks.
 buy them a future.