There she sits, right in the middle
of New Haven -- Yale University!
Home of the best and the brightest,
the future leaders of America.
Those from privilege, with rank,
destined for fame and glory,
those students at Yale.

The real America, is not far away.
In fact, right across the street,
west of Yale on Lake Place.
Low income folks, from the projects,
street people making a buck.
Anyway, everyway, they know how,
only a block from Tower Parkway.

Quite the contrast these streets,
Lake Place and Tower Parkway,
juxtaposed for the whole world to see.
These extremes of our society,
contrasts of the good and the bad.
The best and the brightest,
next to the socalled "outcasts" of society.

Those folks with their high hopes, dreams,
and SAT scores to back them up.
Right next to those with no dreams,
people to busy with life's daily chores
to even think of their future.
Which runs from day-to-day,
week-to-week, and not much more.

Our great institutions, made by man,
should help their humble neighbors.
Those folks right in their own backyard.
Students should care, helping others,
those less fortunate, with little, no fate.
These extremes should not exist,
side-by-side, for all to see, in America!