<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=562947" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lunch Break Outside the Joseph Oat's Machine Shop</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On a pier right above the Delaware & adjacent to a factory, <br>a man takes a lunch break, <br>legs kicking absent-mindedly as he ponders<br>the number of holes he needs to drill through<br>thick steel plates. His green t-shirt with the pocket<br>left of center contrasts the white stucco wall, <br>streaked with rust run-off from the corrugated roof, <br>which shields him now from the work<br>on the inside. The work that will provide some<br>unknown man a million dollars this month. The work<br>that won America its cold war. The work<br>that made Wall Street bullish. The work<br>that tells him he needs an industrial revolution<br>to pay his mortgage and bowling dues. <br>A brackish river, which coils through Camden <br>and Philadelphia, transports barges<br>loaded with cooling towers <br>and heat exchangers for nuclear <br>power plants to places <br>far beyond the man’s imagination. <br>Not caring much about destination<br>he eats his tuna fish sandwich <br>and drinks his cherry coke – his legs kicking, <br>his jaws chewing, his green t-shirt absorbing<br>the sound of heat, the twist of steel<br>that coils & uncoils onto an oily floor.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Tim+Gavin">Tim Gavin</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=562947" data-title="Lunch Break Outside the Joseph Oat's Machine Shop de Tim Gavin" data-description="On a pier right above the Delaware & adjacent to a factory, a man takes a lunch break, legs kicking absent-mindedly as he ponders the number of holes he needs to drill through thick steel plates. His green t-shirt with the pocket left of center ..."></div> </div> </div>

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