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Thursday, May 15, 2008

MAY DAY 2008

by Bill Costley
For Dave Keefer













On May Day,
I blogged about cultivating jade-plants
& got a breathless e-mail
from Anna Hawthorne in Canada
calling the day Beltane.

Unable to march, I wrote.

3 days later,
I BARTed to Berkeley
to a mtg of the writers’union
I’d joined in Boston
when Dutch Reagan
fired the air-traffic controllers.

My union struggles; I persist.


Bill Costley serves on the Steering Committee of the San Francisco chapter of the National Writers Union.
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