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may day.

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‘what radicalized you?’

‘nothing, i was born with basic empathy.

‘the world decided that was radical.’

-the h.h.

 

 

 

 

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art credit: leah jo canix

on the day after May Day.

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this post

 a day late

 may day

yesterday

 a day spent

walking

for the workers

for the immigrants

for all people

for their rights

human rights

in the park

on the streets

to city hall

 I feel lucky to be able to say

I’m home again

not everyone can say that tonight.

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‘if folks can’t imagine you as human, all the policy in the world is irrelevant.’

-Ta-Nehisi Coates

*Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates is an American author, journalist, and activist

to glad tidings and new beginnings.

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“and all the world is glad with may.”

john burroughs

 

 

 

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art credit: madison safer

may day.

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“and all the world is glad with may.”

-john burroughs

 

 

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art credit: ryan conners

today is may.

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may day

 

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“when april steps aside for may,

like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten;

fresh violets open every day:

to some new bird each hour we listen.”

-lucy larcom

 

bringing in the may.

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kinder’s hair shows signs of spring. 

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‘as full of spirit as the month of may, and as gorgeous as the sun in midsummer. ‘     

-william shakespeare

may.

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may-pole

“as full of spirit as the month of may,

and as gorgeous as the sun in midsummer.”

― william shakespeare

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image credit: May Pole (circa 1907). source: http://www.victoriantraditions.com