Реферат: Additional Poems By Joseph Freeman Essay Research

Go in silence; the forgotten man is forgotten,

he Reds remembered; they are here illegal,

Foregathering secretly in private homes.

Tiptoe up the stairway one by one.

Order, compa?eros; Comrade Lopez has the floor.

The terror grows, we have no work, we starve;

Our wives and children hunger; those who still

Labor aridly in the factories (robbed

Of the traditional readers) face new wage-cuts;

The cops ravage meetings; jail, beat, deport

The bravest, wisest workers, those

Who know the road to freedom from this hell.

The factory gates are closed to Negroes:–

Let the black bastards die, let them all die,

Let the blessed Blue Eagle dedevour these rebellious worms,

But let it preserve our profits!

Compa?eros, we shall not die; our ranks are but

A platoon in that vast army, throughout

The world which carries high the proletarian banner

Fighting through blood and terror toward the goal.

We who once raised the red banner over Ybor City

Shall do our part indeed, striking the needed blows

For an America of work and thought for all.

Where soil, factory and machine; art,

Philosophy and science; love itself

Shall be with bread the portion of the people.

Mankind looks forward, but the hurt look back:

Broken of will, distracted and afraid,

They who have had no childhood but the rack