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the poem as
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the poem as
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Music:
Re.
By Lovira.
Performed by Lovira at the
Free Music Archive
under a Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike license.
Let's not minimize the role of thugs
And gangsters in the history of
labor.
Beasts devour ordinary folk.
Opposition soon gives way to shrugs,
Rendering allegiance to whomever.
Dormant zombie unions bear the yoke
Abjectly of their
presidents-for-life.
Yet workers still must organize and
strike.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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