May Day
This feast
day of Joseph the Artisan,
Liberated
for Labor from the Church
When
congregations of workers began
Gathering to
confront the capital rich.
An infamous
Haymarket bomb, a hail
Of police
bullets, then the hangman’s rope
Demonstrated
reasoned reforms would fail:
Workers must
make and pursue their own hope.
Now, fourteen
decades after the event,
Collective
hopes remain unrealised,
So many
parties, despite their intent,
Have left
capital’s spirit unexorcised.
Yet
potential power is marked by May Day,
Of workers
turning history their way.
D.A.
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