Garbage Man - Satire -

Busy shadows follow him on his route
Eyes collecting people dressed in a suite
Every sweat filled day he tells his story
His love’s labor for family glory

In his job syringe needles are not strange
Trash piles giving us a life in exchange
Pill boxes color putrid plastic bags,  
torn and ejected body’s broken rags

We must remove what life has rejected	
For families we mend lives affected 
We endure when families are in need 
Much more than just our families to feed

We deliver no matter the day’s length 
Families depend on their father’s strength
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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Walker Avatar
July 27, 2016 at 10:13 AM
James, your poem paints a realistic picture of a sanitation engineer on his daily route. There are dirty jobs and someone has to do them. Congratulations on your placement. ~ Sonia
Warrior Avatar
July 23, 2016 at 7:58 AM
Congrats! on win my friend...god bless...^WW^
James Avatar
July 24, 2016 at 2:34 AM
Thank you very much WW
Murray Avatar
May 24, 2016 at 9:26 AM
If this is the opposite to my WOMAN then no harm to you, but I don't fancy him.The poem, on the other hand, I do fancy.
James Avatar
May 24, 2016 at 10:04 AM
Hi Jean...remember its a satire...i'm saying a father has the worst job...but his family relies on him..in the third verse leading to the Volta it becomes we...as it now becomes all fathers...well do what it takes to provide Thanks for liking it..:)
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