(recycling)

My life does not
amount to much
except that when
I travel
I bring my paper
waste home
to recycle.
Tea bag wrappers
slipped into
the bottom
of my pruse.
Newspapers
schlepped about.
Sometimes plastic
bottles
and glass.
It’s too late
in my life
to leave it laying
on some motel
desk,
or tossed lightly
in the trash.
Too late
for life.

2/14/00