Oldest Pitcher

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“A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
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The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)