People Who Take Care of People

People who take care of people
get paid less than anybody
people who take care of people
are not worth much
except to people who are
sick, old, helpless, and poor
people who take care of people
. . .
come and go without much fuss
unless they don’t show up.

People Who Take Care,by Nancy Henry, in Good Poems: American Places (Garrison Keillor, ed.), via Work Matters.

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