The Day of the Grizzly Dead
/Fatherhood in the bottle
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a Tupperware bus
resides in the trash can, ‘long
with a recording
of a four-year-old
rapping about cicadas
on his Fisher-Price
tape recorder. Lights
flash on the talking garbage
truck begging, “Recycle”
and the Brio train
set is on top the load to
the dump where the trashman crushes
the piles of garbage
with the Plus Tips
of a 2010 CAT 826H compactor.
the yellow smear of
the school bus caught in the wire
mesh buries itself
in a mix of fish
guts, and chemicals without
safety data sheets (MSDSs)
The dump man who can’t
climb the ladder will drink the
Gallo wine down, break
the glass upon the pad, marking
his domain like the grizzly,
eating his own.
By Barbara A Meier
From: United States
Website: https://basicallybarbmeier.wordpress.com/