What If They Quit What Will Happen To Us
What if they Quit? What will Happen to Us?
We depend on so many to bake and cook our food
To keep us in fashion, to teach our children, to keep museums open
But what if the masses decide it is not worth it?
What if the truck drivers all go on strike?
What if the school teachers say, “we are not returning?”
What if the cooks call in sick and retire?
We depend on so many we do not see.
Things get finished by invisible people
Who work diligently to keep litter out of parks.
To keep the oceans clean, to keep track of our money.
We depend on people we have never met.
What if they quit? What will happen to us?
What if the restaurants close and there are no notes on the door?
What if hoarders buy up all the toilet paper?
Who is going to keep track of us? Who is going to save us? Who?
Copyright © Caren Krutsinger | Year Posted 2021
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