To Be of Use

The work of the world is as 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.
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher creis for water to carry.
-Marge Piercy
This paragraph is part of a poem called "To Be of Use." Section five of our TIWTALW book. Marge Piercy writes about people who work hard in their community, much like we are for our food drive. Everyone is a valued member of a group and can bring different strengths to it. The paragraph suggests that if everyone can work togther than they can come up with something great, but if a group handles things wrong it can end up just being a huge mess. Just like the hopi vases in the paragraph, everyone doing this project should be put to use and work hard. Everyone is important to this project and possesses strengths to add to it.
-MB