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A Garbage Bag When Full

Why is it
that a garbage bag
when full
and being “put out”
will always lean 
in exactly the opposite direction 
to the one you’re aiming for
no matter how you position that bag
before putting it down
intending it to lean away from you
it always, always 
leans towards you 
you can rotate that pesky bag
into a thousand different positions
applying microscopic adjustments
and it will never lean away from you 
and so
after “putting out”
a gazillion full garbage bags
I have come to accept
with the frustrated resignation 
of proven defeat
that a garbage bag
when full
and being “put out”
has more than 360 degrees
to lean towards
and that it has 
an innate and jester-like propensity
to always lean the other way.



Copyright © Rory Galbraith

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