by David Rosenthal
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It’s Monday and the cans are full,
but Friday’s garbage day.
We’ll have to be sustainable,
or else we’ll have to lay
our waste in kitchen corners, or
resort to plastic bags,
and pile them high outside the door
until the old porch sags,
or dig a pit out in the lawn
and bury it down deep,
or burn it all until it’s gone
and crawl on back to sleep.
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| AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for The New Verse News. |
David Rosenthal is a public school teacher in Berkeley, California. He has contributed to Rattle, HAD, Rust & Moth, Birmingham Poetry Review, Teachers & Writers Magazine, and others. He’s been a Nemerov Sonnet Award Finalist and Pushcart Nominee. He’s the author of The Wild Geography of Misplaced Things (Kelsay Books).
