It's May Day!

We have two competing worlds on May Day.

We have the Soviet Union -- who want us to think they're defunct -- parading their finest Brezhnev missiles.

Then we have little American girls and boys in yellow dresses and blue shirts delivering May baskets.

The Soviets goosestep down Kremlin Boulevard next to tanks and pointed vessels of war.

The American children set May baskets on the broad front porches of homes, knock at the door and run.

The Soviets smack at nuclear warheads with hammers, seeking to detonate the next World War and obliterate us.

We American children look at our May baskets, carefully made from construction paper and flower petals, finding the candy in the little nook.