I do not stay at home to play
Nor to knit or purl the live-long day,
For while Amos et al. is at Getaway
We others work so they can play.

Let us who keep the flag aloft
Who mend the shoes and till the croft
The ants who labor so grasshoppers can play
We also serve, who only stand and wait.

      --Gertrudus Omicron Smith, The Dalliance
       (Las Putas, California: Tres Putas Press, 1817)