Cass Tech - Mattiel

A stone lady we once knew

On Second Avenue

Loved her children

And taught them to use their hands

She was always dressed in gray

But her insides were bright as day

Any child of hers would understand

But the DPS couldn’t bother

To save our alma mater

It seems that they were no longer impressed

With her backbone of eight floors

And her heavy wooden doors

Never thought we’d live to see her laid to rest

But our lady sure grew older

And she was given the cold shoulder

And was forgotten by the people of her town

She was a gleaming work of art

But her copper veins were pulled apart

And our great lady, she crumbled to the ground

And it’s hard to understand

How what used to be a wonderland

Could be abandoned and left in such decay

Because somebody wrote a check

To demolish Cass Tech

Ten years short of her hundredth name day