30x30 2012 #7

With apologies to the Archaic Torso Of Apollo.

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Recycle More, Wasteless

Poems are exhausting

I'd rather recycle.

Beverage cartons

bottles metal & foil

and I feel good about my efforts

an At Least

I Tried sort of consolation prize

It's kind of hippie

On the paper from the NYC government

there's this "Everything else" category

for like tennis rackets and other failed hobbies

Even though that stuff is non-recyclable

it feels right to send it away

Like to a "farm for things you don't care about"

you still feel like it fits in somewhere

there go "Clothing" and "Mirrors"

right next to "Plastic rings"

There go the way you look and the way

you look at yourself

the next waste

But remember to cut the plastic rings

so they don't hurt any birds

Don't know what you do with the mirrors

maybe don't put them down there after all

Ah I am sure there is a great reward

for people who recycle

Headache-free in eternity

I am full of eternity

help me sort these

I've got two categories

Batteries

and non-glass lidded drinking containers

with straws

mostly juice cups

I am sure about eternity and that's why I juice

these are containers for juice I drank

I pour them out and into these cleanse bottles

I may look like I don't care but I care a lot

I have a terrible fear for death and I

need to purge at least once a month

Recycling helps

The smug cartoon trashcans with lidded eyes

smiling with a single perforation-free eggtooth

telling me about soft paper

I am going to be in this picture one day

Myself 2D and instructive

I am saying "Please sort, I love you"

Hunching over the green and blue bins

I am saying "You must change your life"