September 26, 2013 #756
Dear Subscriber:
This week’s poem of the week is a poem about social workers.
You can hear me read the poem and listen to the music for it at my site by going to http://www.poemsforfree.com/week.html.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Social workers put a human face
On bureaucracy, a smile on the machine.
Client-centered, they navigate between
Interests in a very narrow space.
All that they can do will rarely do,
Life and budgets being what they are.
Will and knowledge only go so far.
One pushes hope, but must push paper, too.
Roles come with scripts that well-trained players read,
Knowing both the function and the need.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Watch me recite the poem on YouTube at http://youtu.be/0qJid1qioZg.
Dear Subscriber:
This week’s poem of the week is a poem about social workers.
You can hear me read the poem and listen to the music for it at my site by going to http://www.poemsforfree.com/week.html.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Social workers put a human face
On bureaucracy, a smile on the machine.
Client-centered, they navigate between
Interests in a very narrow space.
All that they can do will rarely do,
Life and budgets being what they are.
Will and knowledge only go so far.
One pushes hope, but must push paper, too.
Roles come with scripts that well-trained players read,
Knowing both the function and the need.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Watch me recite the poem on YouTube at http://youtu.be/0qJid1qioZg.
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