Addicted to back alleys
See also: garbage picking for profit
Garbage day is my favourite day. I am like a dog, sniffing my way down back alleys and narrow streets, looking for gold. Finding soggy cardboard boxes, chipped IKEA furniture and bent ceiling fans instead. Sometimes, a miraculous pizza box. On better days, a canvas.
Gold, more gold, gold.
City life is inexhaustible. It is addicting.
Childhood, I sat backseat watching the same cornfields pass. Rows of incremental changes nearly unnoticeable. Nature's growth was a pleasant, ignorable background. But in the city, I succumb and absorb the changes which are so erratic and so thorough that the same walk home surprises, delights and disgusts me every night. I follow my nose to find what's next, what's next, what's next.
is a Canadian poet interested in hotdogs, memory and the formation of self.
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