Everything You Need To Know About Life's Desire Poem by Alistair Plint

the plastic shopping bag
has a methodically placed
"please recycle ♻" sticker
stuck on the bottom corner

that bag stares back
in the face of danger
expecting to be cut up
melted and turned into

a straw

it momentarily considers
belief in reincarnation
as molecules degrade
in aging skin creases

it's first life was
in colourful tupperware
dreaming of becoming
a television, or cheeks
or lips

now content in living;
use
-no longer
a valued
ego-boost

wearing the design
content in it's flaws

welcoming resurrection
as a base theorem
for everlasting life


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