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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Ballad For The Forgotten Workers Comments

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down by the river, down on the street,
past the empty factory buildings,
smokestacks that no longer smoke.
past the run down tenements,
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Smoky Hoss 29 August 2011

Best durn deliberation on the great-American subject I've yet read my friend! Ironically, I just heard on the news that in the last decade over 47,000 factories have closed up shop across the United States. Wonder what jobs are next... Great poem Eric.10 +

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