Friday, June 11, 2021

The Junk Truck






 The

junk 

    truck


    is coming
    I can HEar it

    it is 
      
     coming.

The side doors are beat up and
the bed of the truck is full and the gleaming metal in the 
avant garde stack looks like robot parts. The copper and the magnets
in the old refrigerators and washing machines will be traded...
perhaps the mattresses will be sold and the other things
melted or smelted--but for now they are a mountain
he is carrying. It is definitely epic. The frame of 
the truck is bent yet it towers proudly up
like the first skyscraper
this rolling testament
that trash is treasure
he looks in dumpsters
and is patrolling 
now he is not
just looking 
for 
wooden
pallets.


He keeps on.

I see

him time
and
      time


again


    usually


it is

             the same


stuff


in the truck

but


hope he hits

 
  pay

   dirt.

He



is


go    
   ING



   by

    now



down





the




alley.

 



(2)

T
h
e
ju
nktru
ckiscoming
Ican hear it andnowI
canseeit, coveredfromheadtotoe
withmetal and piecesof parts
andparts ofpieces
itstartsto pull
away and
I wond
erwhere
he will
go
he 
is
g
o
i
n
g
.