May Day: “To Fan The Flames of Discontent”
Posted on May 1, 2008
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Via Scott McLemee at Quick Study, with a further comment at Crooked Timber. And here is a link to the Little Red Songbook, “to fan the flames of discontent.” Back in the seventies I had the good fortune to meet a couple of old Wobblies who had worked the docks in Seattle and knew people who had survived the Everett Massacre. Back then I had a friend named Blake, a hell of a guitar player who knew all the songs. Happy May Day, Blake!
Bonus Track: Shawntay Henry, a high school student from the US Virgin Islands, reads Robert Hayden’s poem “Frederick Douglass.” Henry won the Poetry Out Loud competition yesterday.
Second Bonus Track: A Mayday story from 3QD.
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MAY DAY VALENTINE
No communism but lots more fascism
No baseball but lots more men out
No Rosa Parks but lots more cockamamie
No impeachment but lots more bleeding
No jobs but lots more hepatitis
No gas but lots more machines
No farmers but lots more mad cows
No poetry but lots more poets
No tears but lots more torture
No April but lots more yellow snow
No unions but lots more churches
No karma but lots more rapture
No confessions but lots more atheists
No revolution but lots more concerts.