Saturday, June 1, 2019

Sleeping in




The pitter-pat of gentle rain
The quiet whoosh of summer breeze
The grind and clank of garbage trucks
I missed my trash day once again.

The pile grows throughout the week
Neighbors giving me the eye
Squawking crows will soon compete
with dogs, raccoons and flies.

Driveway strewn with orange peels
empty cans in disarray
Envelopes that carried bills
I was very late to pay.

Old Kleenex that once caught a sneeze
Candy wrappers – Hershey Bar
The quiet whoosh of summer breeze
Across my lawn it’s spread quite far.

Had I not hit the snooze alarm
ten more minutes – let me sleep
All my trash would do no harm
I instead just counted sheep.

















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