Ken Burch
4 min readSep 4, 2022

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Two poems for Labor Day:

I.

Without you

Nothing happens

In this land

Whether you work

On an assembly line,

In an office

In an espresso stand

Or a burger joint,

The places

Where you fuel

The work of most of those

Who labor in other places

The day care center

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Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.