Walking Tour

For your reading enjoyment, a poem I wrote back in college about the things found on trash pickups. Back in Savannah, GA we did a pick up every month, mostly on the barrier islands, reachable only by boat. This barely even touches on the weird things we've found while picking up trash.


Walking Tour

rusted bicycle, dragged up from the depths
ball basketball three Frisbees
toothbrush hat alligator one faded doll arm
the front half of Percy, cartoon dog
devoid of color and meaning and happy meals
wiffle ball bat tires crab, living in can (cut open to let out)
artificial flower, white, nearly imperceptible amongst real ones
bottlecaps cigarette butts bits of glass nails
two dollars
unopened can of beer, once, one of Coke
shoe shoe cowboy boot
box of empty gelatin capsules
beer can beer can beer can beer can
busted screenless tv full of interesting parts
dried black rose (put into Arbor Mist bottle)
beer bottle beer bottle beer bottle beer bottle
two pairs of underwear, same day- child’s
inflatable raft fishing poles tampons
neon strips- lightless- from cruise ships
the boat of Cuban refugees, unsinkable
crab traps coconuts conch shells
raccoon tracks
the biggest horseshoe crab shell ever seen (kept)
bits and bits and bits of Styrofoam
(will be here in 500 years)
the card to the door of the Econo Hotel
dry eyed withered stare
(avoid dead animals)
infinite straws plastic bags pieces of plastic bags
always a condom
ants
shark skull
palm frond rose
McDonalds Burger King Wendy’s Krystal
blow up kids pool another toothbrush
st patricks day windsock, half buried
buoys boatseats refrigerator Steamvac
Doritos Lays Cheetos Funyuns
cigarette packs filters butts lighters
pillow roofing siding nails car parts tires tires
the decaying body of a man
half a bottle of chardonnay

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