Working Hands<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
You can tell a man’s worth<\/p>\n
Not by the change in his pocket<\/p>\n
But by the skin on his hands<\/p>\n
And the lines in his face<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Men who can save for the future<\/p>\n
Hire hard-handed men<\/p>\n
To do their labor as they<\/p>\n
Move numbers across a desk<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Men with leathery worn fingers<\/p>\n
Broad and hard at the edges<\/p>\n
From digging and pounding have<\/p>\n
Hands immune to the world<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
These hands of working men<\/p>\n
Work for money to<\/p>\n
Buy the blue sailboat<\/p>\n
Pay the lumberyard debt<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
For a man’s worth must be<\/p>\n
Gathered and displayed<\/p>\n
Shown off to each other<\/p>\n
To be acknowledged<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
TobeTT\u00a0 # 13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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