The forgotten essential workers Who is seldom mention. Who is so often belittle, Porters, Cooks, Laundry workers Dish-washers, Elevator-repair men Recreations, Front Desk clerks Certified Nurse’s Aide Home health aide Waiters, God! Oh how hard we work! Private’s aides
Now as we celebrate Juneteenth 19 Black lives matters, can we really be seen After four hundred years of oppressions Can we tossed back river of tears we are in 2020 is this our commission?
We as Essential workers in your nursing homes Being tested twice a week, By your essential worker phlebotomist Who puncture my vein with his cannula? For the governor executives order listen up you uncouth nurses who poke The swab sticks deep into my nose. Listen this quackery has to end! Pandemic, politics, election strategy We essential need more respect. You with your white privileges, and your treats
(RE: PCR swabbing, week being on Wednesday and ends on Tuesday. If you work 4 or more days you need to be swabbed 2x per week In a 48hrs time frame, if not you will be taken off the schedule You will be humiliated, said the Administrator Mr. Sal Because he is not a babysitter there to reminds you.. Said a non- professional white privileges) as the city navigate the pandemic moving on to injustices of systemic racism, poverty, militarism and a war economy:
Mr. Governor Cuomo: I cannot breathe.. I Mr. Governor Cuomo: I cannot breathe