Which Way to the Dump?

I'm sorry

Clawing at your courtesy

Just to savor the sting under my fingernails

Until you find a stronger signal within yourself

To relieve me of what once was my place

I remain

The snow you shovel in spring

A customer not yet in line

Well past closing time

The dragging breath before your sigh as

At long last

You give up your temporary

Curbed again, but always mistaken

For recycling

The next owner finds me

Ravenous and arrived

At the vicious beginning

Author's Note

All feedback welcome.

Reviews

[Sami Khalil]

Your writes are sharp-edged and direct. I like it a lot.
You say what you mean.

[schlanks]

It's funny you say that because a lot of the time my work is so abstract that people struggle to interpret it. This one was an exercise for me in being more straightforward

[Sami Khalil]

Wow
You are right.

[Sami Khalil]

"Until you find a stronger signal within yourself
To relieve me of what once was my place"

[Sami Khalil]

"Curbed again, but always mistaken
For recycling
The next owner finds me"

[Sami Khalil]

"I remain
The snow you shovel in spring
A customer not yet in line"