An Ode to Garbage Athena Thomas
8:37 AM: I’ve thrown away five things, a Maggi noodle wrapper from breakfast a pen that’s run out of ink a dead battery
a can from last night a wipe to sanitize
Plastic takes a thousand years to decompose; all the websites say so. 1000 years for a wrapper 500 for a pen
100 years for a battery 250 for a sprite 100 for a wipe
Exponentially growing landfill in developing country. Like me, this trash will traverse land and sea,
1000 years for a quick meal 500 to fill a few pages
100 to power my remote 250 to sip a drink
100 to clean a stain My trash, you will outlast me,
Though I can’t grasp such numbers,
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