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Video and Audio Music:
Maryandra's Waltz.
By Jesse Gallagher.
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Illustration Credit: AI
Copyright by
Nicholas Gordon
Labor is
a blessing and a curse,
As one must work to live and live to work.
Better jobs to get up for or worse,
On the whole, with none you'd go berserk.
Remember, then, that dignity requires
Doing, working, laboring -- a role
As giver, as attendant to desires
You recognize within some common
soul.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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