I dearly love Robert Lowell's 'For The Union Dead'. I've borrowed the title, not the content.
But he's twenty years too late,
The factory closed in '86
With 200 workers in a fix,
And what once made jars
Is now a park for cars,
So why the demo
Outside a limo?
What's that on the placard?
'Hey you in the Packard,
You sold out your members,
Reduced the plant to embers,
And cut up your union card,
Was it hard, was it hard?'.
Chris Fernie, 2006
Poetry by Chris Fernie
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Written on 2006-08-29 at 20:04
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For the union dead
There's a picket at the gate,But he's twenty years too late,
The factory closed in '86
With 200 workers in a fix,
And what once made jars
Is now a park for cars,
So why the demo
Outside a limo?
What's that on the placard?
'Hey you in the Packard,
You sold out your members,
Reduced the plant to embers,
And cut up your union card,
Was it hard, was it hard?'.
Chris Fernie, 2006
Poetry by Chris Fernie
Read 506 times
Written on 2006-08-29 at 20:04
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