Rev. Gerald Dillenbeck Poet Political Verse

Planned Nonobsolescence

Planned non-obsolescence
is when you pour from a nearly empty carton
with unusual reserve
so as not to be the one
who drank the last of the milk.

When you push in your trash
so it squeezes into the eight-gallon white liner
with the faintest hint of a squint-eyed possibility
that someone else might possibly squeeze in just one more thing
after you,
so you are not that one
who didn't bother to help clear out our trash containers
leaving pristine liners for all of us.

When you don't prepare a will
because you weren't planning to need one.

When you continue to take one more possibly last breath,
one more last compassionate project,
one more than merely civil relationship,
despite having considered all the reasons
not to bother listening
to what
and whom
threatens to obsolete you.

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