may parade

May Parade.

Overcast, and it is the workers day, here in Algarve,
most places are close, except those who are self –
employed who mark their distance from wage
receivers by working a few hours, as they grumble
sourly about low production. In Britain they call it
Bank Holiday, to celebrate the workers day is
embarrassing in a country where people are made
to feel ashamed for being working class. In Norway
there is marching in main streets today, waving of
banners and flags, horn music and general noise; and
why not, here the middle classes too- those who
receive a wage- see themselves as workers, march
to ghastly music, and shout “up the workers” as fist
fights break out outside restaurants at closing time.