'Recycling’s the word that makes it OK To throw so many things away.' Photo: by Jilbert Ebrahimi on Unsplash

Poem by RV Bailey

Recycling facility

Poem by RV Bailey

by RV Bailey 16th September 2022

What shall I do with this, the old lady asks,
Offering a telephone. It still works.
Not now, it doesn’t. He chucks it in a skip.