WORKERS REDUX
Now when some of us home considering what life means
what matters when we see so clearly how all workers
make life possible how tightly our lives are woven together all of us
in this very same picture no matter where we are sitting
now when we clap each night at 7 o'clock
for people who go to the hospital no matter what
the job they chose or the job that chose them
is cradle to grave when we order oranges and a person brings
those oranges when the big white trucks pick up garbage
someone drives those trucks hoists black bags in when we
get our mail eat bread call the pharmacy we know people
are behind the mail and the bread and the drugs we need
now even though we are mostly
inside for a while still we can celebrate every single person
more than a village maybe the size of a smallish state say
Connecticut working always working for us all.