Ode to the Workers

For the Workers: Heroes, all!

Ode to the Workers
Photo by Museums of History New South Wales / Unsplash


This is a story about the folks/Who pour you drinks and tell you jokes/Who park your cars and take your cash/who trim your nails and wax your gash/who dance for your dollars or simply for art/who fluff your pillows and check your heart/who keep you safe and teach your kids/who fill your pills and sell you mids/who sing for their supper or cook yours for you/or who manage all the misfits who do/It's about all these people from myriad places/who are paid to be glad to see all your faces/through celebrations, disasters, and sporting events/they all care for us and sometimes get spent/So, here, raise a cheers, to the health and the plight/ Of Saints and Of Sinners: We're ready to fight!