Monday is our trash day

I wheel out the big brown trash can very early

fill it with all the trash we generated in the last seven days

watch the garbage truck roll up

an energetic young man grabs the can

Wheels it to the back and tips it into the truck

and then its all compressed 

the empty can gets put away

and we go about making filling it with more trash

our entire home is a trash generating machine

we make food waste

we discard packaging from Amazon

we empty containers and drink cans

we throw away junk mail

its a never ending cycle

we bring home new stuff

marvel over it at first

then store it unused in a closet

later move it out to the garage

like elderly relatives in a nursing home

its never coming back home

it will eventually end up in the trash

I suppose thats where we will end up too

maybe its best if we arrange to die very early on a Monday