Short Wastebasket Poems

Each time I finish a beer, I throw the empty 
can at the wastebasket. 
They always bounce off and clink about 
on the floor, most likely due to the 
fact that the trashcan is filled 
with trash....

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A wastebasket holds the truth
An empty bottle of water
Drowns itself beside a pale pink layer
Of a vacant foundation
I peer over the side,
Hoping to uncover something
More than desertedness
But I simply see myself
Blank and bare...

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I really tried to complete the task,
My wastebasket,
Filled with every failed attempt.
The directions seemed so easy,
"Please include this quote"
It was so beautifully uplifting
I tried, to combine our works.
But no matter how I wrote it,
My words refused to blend....

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My wastebasket overflows
                           with aborted attempts,
Lines that I cannot rhyme
                           and syntax that limps. 

Written November 6, 2022
Submitted to "Bite Size No. 55" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Line Gauthier...

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Adam was an 
acceptable accountant
And Eve a bubblingly 
bright bookkeeper;
Adam loved the 
First-In, First-Out
Accounting (FIFO) system, 
While Eve preferred 
The Last-In, First-Out
Inventory (LIFO) system;  
Together they testified that
Inventoried sweet fruit 
should neither 
Sits and spoil 
nor go to the 
Garden wastebasket 
Wrongfully....

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There was something wrong with me.
During the meeting,
I felt like going to a square
and swinging.
I tried to concentrate
but I was thinking
if the fact of not having vices
it would no longer be an addiction either.
When everyone left the room,
worried about their laptops and reports,
I still stayed there for quite a while.
Couldn't hit a single clip
in the wastebasket.
There are days I don't know what the problem is....

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