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May 24, 2020 By Staff

Thank you for your service

With the masses huddled in their homes
Communicating by video and iPhones

Neighbors on lawn chairs; six foot spread
Passing time bantering; contemplating the dead

Little children perched by window sill
Peering at an idle world; so many ill

Busy sidewalks once crisscrossed the city
Now lonely lanes; desolate or empty

20 million pondering their plight
Out of work; perhaps out of fight

Amidst the dismal confluence of circumstance
The overlooked souls who give us a chance

EMT’s and nurses and laboratory technicians
Hospital service workers, and ER physicians

Grocery store staff and the delivery drivers
Policemen and the folks who put out the fires

Immigrant meat packers and transit workers
Telephone lineman and sanitation collectors

The unsung supporters of basic existence
They tempt the virus absent resistance

No OSHA proscription and no protection
Too many of them have died from infection

History will reflect and lay out the blame
Yet, tempered by loss, we will not be the same

In case we forget let’s make it quite clear
We owe some souls who checked their fear

They are the voiceless; the little guys
Invisible workers who risked their lives

May they find appreciation in a post virus day
May their employers consider raising their pay

May their jobs become safer and more secure
May dignity grace them on the factory floor

And for now; this fleeting moment in time
Just one single line; one without rhyme

“Thank you for your service.”

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  • rguttmanReuben A. Guttman
    Senior Founding Partner


    (202) 800-3002
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    Practice Areas
    Consumer Law
    Complex Litigation
    Complex Employment and Labor
    Civil Rights

    Education
    Emory Law School (J.D., 1985)
    University of Rochester (BA, 1981)

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