Workmen

Workmen On the way to the bank this morning four workers were shuffling shingles into big buckets carrying the load down some steps coming up with empty buckets filling them up again. They had sweat on their brows; one hoped they made enough money for the daily bread. I may have worked long hours in my life, but not like this lifting and carrying heavy objects, and I take it they were poorly paid. It seems to me people who perform hard physical work are poorly paid in insecure work the first to be laid off and end up sleeping in the street, They are the people we despise but without them the world would come to a standstill yet we pay them a few miserable coins left in pockets when we change our trousers.