Labor Day
took me a while
to understand jobs we happen to have
plumber poet home care worker
how we earn our living circumstances of life
our grandmother’s name shape of our apartment
books that were or weren’t in a library near our house
who we are and what we do aren’t the same and we
who work all of us who work
we have to work to live we have to work
to pay for our lives that all of us who work
no matter what the job we do
we are all really and truly workers.