May Day 2009

All day I stared at the blank world
And could not tell 
The words invisible in my hell
I waited for the sounds of emergency
The blinking eyes and flashing red
The petals crushed upon the ground
I waited in vain
Excoriated by pain
Carrying the debris in my brain
Of great structures of falsity
Crushing indescriminately the workers
Of Chrysler, GM and the hollow economy
Splintering their dreams
Into shards unjubilant
And I could not understand the world
Without smoke 
The silence of the mighty Pele
The river a toxic brown not red
And this is May
So marginal to the memory
The horror that workers saw
When they begged justice for bread
What May is this
That does not cry everywhere
For workers and their leaders dead?
All day only my pen 
Dared march the white edge of history
The fragrance of teargas
The fumes of petals crushed
Under the boots of my poetry.
All day they invented a virus
To scare the world inside
But I am a steel man
And bring no flowers to the deal.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009



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Date: 5/2/2009 7:11:00 AM
What a powerhouse poem....this is amazing! .. such a play on words...calling mayday!! ...who will hear the call? who will come to rescue, and like you, the debris in my brain...cannot comprehend it all....Excellent....sad...provocative, but excellent!
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Date: 5/2/2009 12:57:00 AM
written history of what passed and might come,may day-i can feel the cry here,cry for those who worked hard and suffered to bring daily bread,and its good to remind us.may day-my friend on this day-i was born 32 years ago,yes on may day-----charma,smile;-)
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Date: 5/1/2009 10:14:00 PM
Deeply felt. Written well... awesome job
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