Analysis of All Labor has dignity

All labor has dignity

Brown paper bagged lunches
with a cup of Joe
sitting on a counter with a waitress
standing over
rolled up newspaper in back pocket

Worn down shoes
that walk the back streets across the tracks
they earn the bread they eat
and  build for those in need

They live on common ground
worn and tired swollen hands
work their youth away

They dance like tight rope walkers
on high beams of steel
in cathedrals in the sky

Jack hammers riveters and hard hats
working rhythms of hot days
beneath a setting sun