February 16, 2016

STILL AROUND

  

Potato peels sticking to the inside of a big blue

plastic garbage can. The rest of the potato is
gone. It had made the cut. It was mashed - 
with some milk - and then big spooned  into a solid white porcelain bowl and placed next 
to the pot roast on the big white table cloth - along with everything that made up a great
big delicious Sunday evening family dinner.

Back to the potato peels sticking to the

inside of that big blue plastic garbage can.

There they stayed for 3 more days. The next
time they slid out of the can and into the garbage truck - and then headed to  the garbage dump.

Those peels are still there in the dump -

two years now - dried up, rained on, covered over, still existing, still lasting. The mashed

potatoes. They were delicious - but soon forgotten by 6:30  PM that Sunday eve.

As it stands - if I had a choice - I’d want to be

a potato peel - still wondering what my future is -

what will happen before I disappear into this land

fill or _____________________________?  

At least I’m still around after all these years.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2016