به مهاجران کار – مجید نفیسی

To Working Immigrants

by

Majid Naficy

        For International Workers’ Day

That weekend, on Fourth Street

Where the No. One meets the Nine,

It was only I

Who brought the two lines together.

The line going downtown

Carried sleepy immigrant men to work.

The other line turned round

Taking maids to wealthy homes,

And it dropped me off at a foothill.

In the canyon, I constantly asked myself:

When will these  working families

Sit on the same line?

October 24, 1986