As Life Goes On

Unwrap the packages to get at

what you want. Toss the junk mail

into the trash.

Pieces of paper wadded up and

thrown away. Old receipts cleared

from the table.

Emptied cans, cartons and bottles

discarded. Add mayonnaise and

milk to the grocery list.

Squeeze the last from the tooth-

paste tube. Used paper towels and

tissues. Odds and ends from who

knows where. Several times each day,

all of us need to be responsible for the

disposal of our own waste.

The Brits and Aussies call it rubbish.

Funny name but in the good old US

of A, trash all the same.

The perpetual making of trash by

everyone each day, as life goes on

without saying, never ends.

                 -30-

Chris Hanch 12-29-2020