It began with thundering <br />................marching <br />.................................raindrops <br /> <br />Like a thundering herd of <br />................buffalo stampeding <br />.................................over prairie land <br /> <br />Hidden faceless immigrants <br />.................toiling late into the night <br />.................................drenched in debt and sweat <br /> <br />Rows of manikins <br />..................with revolving hands <br />..................................spewing out endless things <br /> <br />Rows of benches <br />..................lined with fear <br />..................................protests hidden in folded sleeves <br /> <br />Language barriers <br />...................frozen passports <br />..................................wages withheld <br /> <br />working in <br />....................the Land of the Free <br />..................................the “garbage” of global economy <br /> <br /> <br />No Justice Here <br /> <br /> - March 5,2008 <br /> <br />Published online by Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Vol.2 No.2, January 2009<br /><br />Ben Gieske<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/so-many-multitudes/
