Lady Dumpster

Her hands gnarled and knotted slumping as she walked some called out when she was spotted her shout name was Lady Dumpster as she staggered along, she talked folks tried to help her—she balked When she was a girl, she was plump family lived near the dump ground her dad called her “the big lump” everything they owned was found from digging in the garbage dump Maggie never finished school rumor floated round the town (pregnant by a family member) her brother said to be so cruel someone made her sister drown No baby, no Maggie! sadly lost from the start an elusive character no longer human years later, out she came pushing her cart her dignity and mind were now subhuman Her saga does not end well life for her, a living hell under a bridge lay Maggie quite frozen holding her dead cat— So it goes--how fortunate for that she died in a place that she had chosen This a true story with literary license. © a year ago, Carol Davis