From the perspective of August 19, 2010, the author critically examines and satirizes those who are detached from true labor, describing them as “vampires.” The piece contrasts the dignity of a true laborer’s hands and the effects of working under the sun with the reality of those in the upper echelons of society.

2010/08/19

What are your hands like? Is your neck lined with wrinkles from the sun?

I hope your hands are not the hands of a true laborer, hands that have tilled the soil, caught fish, cut wood, or kept factory machines running.

I wish your hands were pure white, like a vampire’s. I wish your neck was without a single wrinkle.