"FRIG WAR PIGS" at Nov. 3 SF rally

On the day after being beaten black-and-blue by Bush
(who didn't even need Nader's feeble help),
we protest.
A woman's sign says, "Frig War Pigs".
A man's flag says, "The world remains divided."


An African-American passerby asks,
"What are you guys protesting about?"
I think of listing a dozen issues, which would use up
half an hour of her time.
Instead I boil it down to two words:
"Against Bush".
As she walks away, she says,
"Because he won?"


She's probably no friend of Bush,
but she has put her finger on the futility of our demonstating
just a few hours after Kerry has conceded.


If the election were still in doubt, we leftists would have been outnumbered, even in bad weather, by outraged Democrats fearing a 2000-style coup d'etat.
If Kerry had won, we could demand that he fulfill his campaign promises, vague as those were.
But tonight all we can do is curse Bush, in his moment of triumph, irrelevantly.
So only the usual hardcore protesters -- my peers, my extended dysfunctional family -- even bother to show up.


Nearby, on the edge of the crowd, activists hurriedly construct
a space ship,
labelled "Uh Oh", for escape from our doomed planet.


Wishful speakers call for leftist "revolution", on the day after a majority of U.S. voters endorse far-wrong reactionaries. I hope these oratorical fantasies make some ralliers feel less depressed. I've been way downbeat since late Tuesday night, brooding darkly about a Supreme Court packed with Scalia clones.


The best part of this rally, as usual, is the music. If I were allowed to design rallies, they'd be 90 percent artsy (singing, dancing, poetry, drumming, etc.) and ten percent speakers. Alas, most rallies are just the reverse.


My comment on most rallies,
to the tune of "Where have all the soldiers gone":

"When will all the hot air end?
Long time pa-ass-ing...
When will we ever learn?
When will we ehhhh-ver learn?"


I buy an Earth flag, then leave around 5:50 pm.


-- Anarka Pervissima
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