Happenings

 

Let it be said, once I did factory work just

to get along. But a factory worker is not who I am.

I had a friend who was a plumber, a damn good

plumber indeed. But he was much more than that,

you see, a good guy and a friend of mine was he.

I had many jobs throughout the years

which provided financial support for my family

and me, but I managed to juggle other inane tasks

and meet myriad responsibilities.

History shows Emily Dickinson and Maya Angelou

were poets, and that they were. But what’s more,

they were thoughtful women who were purveyors

of images and words.

Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, Confucius, Descartes,

where acclaimed philosophers in their day.




Picasso, Michelangelo, Rembrandt




and Monet painted and sculpted their way to




fortune and fame.

Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Isaac Newton,

Charles Darwin, Nikola Tesla and Galileo Galilei

to the benefit of humankind put their scientific

genius on display.

Let it be said again,

I did factory work in my time, but a factory

worker is not who I am.

I did a hell of a lot of other things

to occupy my time while life was happening.

And much like you, I imagine, we did

what was needed of us or that which

we loved to do.

Oh and then, of course, there was all that other

unmentionable stuff too. (Nod, nod, wink, wink).

Just saying.

                         -30-

Chris Hanch 12-3-2020