Picking Up The Litter

I am picking up the litter someone left here by the creek
I am feeling very bitter that that someone was so weak
That they couldn't carry paper to a trash receptacle
They considered it a caper, and for that I'm skeptical

The lowest of the low
Think it's the status quo
The thing that they don't know
How much it causes woe

I think this single piece of trash, could just have been recycled
It makes me want my teeth to gnash, they must feel so entitled
The danger that it puts us in, is always understated
If only dropped into the bin, or otherwise donated

As we look on from high
It causes a black eye
On everything we spy
We need to say good bye

A bottle is a nickel spent, five pennies on redeeming
But added up a fortune sent, to waters now are screaming
The added cost of picking up, the cost is so tremendous
A single bottle, seven-up, it's fate is now horrendous

So heed us as we cry
It's not enough to sigh
I keep on asking why?
Why can't they just comply?

Roger D. Linder: FAWM 2023
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