Fred Aiken Writing

Tag: recycling

November 30, 2023

canned boba tea

empty cans of cheap boba tea
from h mart pile up
in my recycling bin,
and i’m pretty sure my wife asked me
to leave them out for the trash/recycling/people
to take on trash day,
but i never wrote down when trash day was,
so they’re still sitting there,
accumulating a colony of flies that seem perfectly
content subsisting on my waste

February 3, 2022

Recycled Knowledge Floating in the Ocean

words and formulas memorized for exams one or two lifetimes ago

for reasons no one knows,

or cares to remember

while maestros habla mucho por nada

and books keep piling higher and higher

with information that keeps getting lost and collected

but never found

and for some reason never recycled,

as time comes to collect