by Jodi Barnes
I tell my students about a time
when seniority was told
by the number of fingers
on a worker's hands
No weekends or overtime,
children — bare toes dangling —
twelve hours on the line
I look for signs of empathy
as we watch Norma Rae
UNION placard above her head
Instead someone mimics
Sally Fields' Oscar line:
You like me; You really like me!
Another asks if she's had
more than one facelift,
a third, metalic nails mid-text,
announces she might be dead.
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Taught labor relations, labor history for many years.
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"a third, metalic nails mid-text/announces she might be dead."
Story of every other class I've been in.
Captures what populates colleges now from sea to shiny sea.
So glad I got out of the teaching biz when I did. *