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Shift Change Tools of the Trade. Connotation

Shift Change

Hard hats and sediment-
smudged cheeks
move with a passing nod
to and from the smoke stained
brick compound
where they labor
for their family’s supper.

Rolling waves of inky smut sift
from commercial chimneys
to be sucked into the pulsing
pink organs
of its citizens before drifting
into the clouds.

Consumers supplied,
profits partitioned,
labor exploited
and the universe ignored.
                   ~~Judi Van Gorder

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