Safety Vest: A Sonnet

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Safety Vest

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

Of orange and silver is the safety vest,
Worn by road-toilers and those who swing spades
In dirty ditches, and thus they evade
Dangerous traffic with glittering chests.
But what of this man in no work employed,
Far from the pavements where jackhammers pound,
On him no road-dust or a…