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garbage pail Gail

Chris Butler

Garbage Pail Gail

was the whorish hoarder
for the aborted treasures
of others.
She threw her last baby away
yet she kept her precious
collected keepsakes safe
inside herself.

She had become cluster
fucked by the overwhelming
clutter of depression- era
newspapers molding in the
fruit cellar, covering the
taxidermy statues of feral
felines with plastic artifacts
classified as knick-knacks
and her vacuum sealed
soul, littered and archived
across the condemned
flea market,

when the frayed
leftover copper wire
twist-tied to faulty
electrical sockets
sparked over the
desiccated stacks
of trash,
combusting her world’s
worth of stuff into
possessive flames,

but in her attempt to
prolong her belongings,

she could not be saved.

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