State Penn Here They Come

By Elton Camp

The mess at Penn State may be hard to understand

But clearly, love of football got way out of hand

Too much emphasis on what’s really a child’s game

Has brought a major university to deepest shame

Coaches and football must be protected at all cost

Now the institution’s reputation may be forever lost

Because failure to report a coach’s most terrible crime

For at least ten years obviously occurred time after time

According to the disgraceful reports that we all now hear

Of football, university employees stood in quaking fear

That a lowly janitor kept quiet can be somewhat understood

But the silence of top university officials surely isn’t good

These folks should have immediately made the demand

“Coach, to your presence on campus there’s a total ban.”

Sadly, the honorable intentions of many this may well end

A lonely child, many good men now will fear to befriend