The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth
The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth - meaning Summary
Suffering Across Social Ranks
Bukowski contrasts his own poetic discomfort with the harsher, often invisible misery of manual laborers. He imagines lettuce pickers and factory workers trapped in exhausting routines, forced to perform cheer or amusement amid hardship, while their personal tragedies go unnoticed. The poem widens a private complaint into social empathy, suggesting suffering is both common and unrecorded among the working poor.
Read Complete Analysesif I suffer at this typewriter think how I'd feel among the lettuce- pickers of Salinas? I think of the men I've known in factories with no way to get out- choking while living choking while laughing at Bob Hope or Lucille Ball while 2 or 3 children beat tennis balls against the wall. some suicides are never recorded.
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