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Labor Day 2021

Courtesy of one or more tradesmen, first Monday in September set aside for employees able, eager, ready and willing to acquire money to marry groom or bride climb the corporate ladder or become an artisan, entrepreneur, technician to side step getting rung, drafted like an oxen plow, commandeered and chide by management as insubordinate till retirement or join kiln fields once died from over exertion, yet nonetheless sweat of brow efforts praised I espied searching me noggin brief history re: aforesaid day, where barbecues fried dispersed aromas recognizing efforts of workers with quality control as guide grievances against danger challenged sense and sensibility stalwart did not hide the shenanigans that took place inside boardrooms in tandem with glories of American made products from those who put figurative nose to grindstone – just common everyday Jane's and Joe’s who weathered extreme temperatures, whereby bodies froze but thanks to those who battled elements at large and snatched doze birth of brute efforts eventually earned reserved renowned borne couple shy of nineteenth century, whence sound of industrial silence replaced with parades where hoof beats did pound burgeoning and bustling city streets echoed along hardened ground fealty to country soldered with faith, federation union freedom and job security did thence abound, which holiday underwent transformations as bustle and hustle proved myth regarding land of milk and honey – from straining of muscle whereby life, liberty and pursuit of happiness less of physical tussle set (thank you Masons and Dixons) cornerstone to an invisible complex edifice originally from New York forgotten builders, farmers, machinists, et cetera who laid groundwork wrought by destruction from Civil War largesse and pork loosed from the bottle in Antebellum South, when off flew cork freeing a genie, which became rendered supremely courtly poet, i.e. this former dork.

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