Rubbish

poem inspired by tv ad for a charity helping orphans in India living off city waste heaps

RUBBISH

rubbish, any old rubbish,bring it out bring it on
tip it out fill the bin tip the bin fill the tip
fill the lakes fill the sea fill the hills
make a new hill.
Hill of muck,
muck makes money
money makes muck
many a muckle makes a mickle
filthy rich,rich pickings

Let them pick it over, the skinny kiddies
scraps of life; scraps to live
bags of bones with bags of bits
tugging the heaving hill
fevered hill of ills
scavenge rags and rubber from clutter and chaos
the cities stinking gutter
let them bless the mess
daily and change it
to bread