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Bones of a Feast

Trash night our street is lined with overflowing garbage cans because you have to pay x-tra to have unlimited pick-up the poorer class stack their trash to overflowing the mouths of the cans propped wide open, like a wino purging last nights glass- The raccoons will move in toppling cans -have a grand feast, the remains of which blow into my yard- and let me tell you: this is one junk food munching fornicating unpaid bill delaying ***** reading corona drinking mans avenue. but I don't mind picking up after them... the racoons

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019




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Date: 2/24/2019 8:16:00 PM
Can't put my finger in it, but I love this piece.
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Date: 2/21/2019 12:23:00 AM
Ah, a funny ending. I can see this scene so well, which is why we upgraded to a giant dumpster because we live with coyotes, fox, opossum, raccoon and everything else in the country!
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