Summer’s Last Holiday
used to be the summer
season’s first holiday
May-day, still celebrated
around the world on
the first of May
celebrates labor’s victories
of the late 19th and early 20th
centuries over robber barons
and their bankers and lackeys
federal, state, and local
our owners bought and manipulated
the levers of power; moved our
celebration to season’s end
reduced to backyard smokey grills
and a few ball games
they dismantled the left
coalition that won labor the
New Deal and clawed back
most of the gains bought with the
sacrifices of workers and their lives
propaganda and bought politicians
got rid of the CIO, the Wobblies,
the socialist, the anarchists, and
the dreaded communists
put the robber barons back in charge
Labor Day reduced to symbolic
day off and little understanding of
its significance and the costs to
the working classes and their
current losses
–LE
CynOp 
6 responses to “Summer’s Last Holiday”
All our holidays are now commercialized so we’ll spend, spend, spend. I don’t play that game, and haven’t for years. Tomorrow will be just another day to me.
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I second what kathmandu wrote. 😆
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Agree, but was trying to make a bit more of a political statement… in favor of ‘labor’…; -)
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I got that, and agree with you,
By the way, what do you think of RFK Jr.?
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RFK Jr.: I don’t know that much about him other than he seems to be trying to get us to identify him with his father. So far, I’m not buying it… Time will tell…; -)
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Yep. 🙂
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