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28 <br /> <br />To be of use <br /> <br />The people I love the best <br />jump into work head first <br />without dallying in the shallows <br />and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight. <br />They seem to become natives of that element, <br />the black sleek heads of seals <br />bouncing like half-submerged balls. <br /> <br />I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart, <br />who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience, <br />who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward, <br />who do what has to be done, again and again. <br /> <br />I want to be with people who submerge <br />in the task, who go into the fields to harvest <br />and work in a row and pass the bags along, <br />who are not parlor generals and field deserters <br />but move in a common rhythm <br />when the food must come in or the fire be put out. <br /> <br />The work of the world is common as mud. <br />Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. <br />But the thing worth doing well done <br />has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident. <br />Greek amphoras for wine or oil, <br />Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums <br />but you know they were made to be used. <br />The pitcher cries for water to carry <br />and a person for work that is real. <br /> <br />Marge Piercy from Circles on the Water <br /> <br />December 12, 2018, Work Session - Item 2