Voice of the Day: Marge Piercy

By the Web Editors
Oct 29, 2009
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The work of the world is common as mud.

Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.

But the thing worth doing well done

has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.

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An image of the November 2026 issue of Sojourners, titled "Face to Face." It features George Lakey on the cover
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