May Day: A tribute to the Anarchists

Fourth of May,
what a tragic day,
blood shed for a rest day,
for a less hour work day,
the anarchist hope and pray,
the police march in formation,
a bomb exploded causing consternation,
Degan dies for a senseless show,
gunshots fired between friends and foes,
workers and polices lay wounded and dead,
what a bloodied path to tread,
caught were the eight,
what a terrible fate,
a trial to follow,
all but one sentence to the gallows,
of the seven,
two were commuted to life,
while Lingg prefers the dynamite,
the rest were dutifully hanged,
but slowly not as planned,
before his death,
Spies shouted his last breath,
"The time will come
when our silence will be
more powerful than the voices
you strangle today!"