Let's Not Minimize the Role of Thugs

September 8, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is labor, in honor of Labor Day, which falls on September 5.

Today’s poem is a Labor Day poem about the role of gangsters in American organized labor.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

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.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/letsno.html. For more Labor Day poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/labordaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Labor.

September 5: Lest You Think High Taxes Rob the Rich

September 6: Labor Ought to Earn a Decent Living

September 7: Labor’s a Commodity, like Fish

September 8: Let’s Not Minimize the Role ofThugs