Cogs in the Wheel

each week the trash truck pulls up and a sanitation worker jumps off the truck, grabs hold of plastic bags of trash, throws them into the maw of the truck, and moves on to the next house

every day workers mop bathroom floors, sanitize the toilet, scrub soap scum from the sink and check paper towels, toilet paper, and soap dispensers

sometimes I think we're blind and never see these folks