The Boy in the Chair – a first draft

The Boy in the Chair

should be the last victim

of the hand that slaps,

shoves, hits and maims

a child at school

now in his shack that has

no windows, he hears

the other children kicking

a soccer ball in the distance

with legs no longer

like his own, he still

dreams of the day

he becomes a doctor

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This is an initial reaction to a news item in South Africa about a boy who was assaulted by a principal after accusing him of stealing R150.

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