12 Choose these workaday people

12                       

“Choose these workaday people,”

The angel said,  “and their homely
      decencies.

Vices abound.  The sow of evil

feeds on its farrow.  Trust to their
      mercies

 

and envy no rich man’s son.

They will free you, strong in the run

of the world.  Eat their coarse bread

And be hearty.”  And so I did.