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One Man's Trash

from Everything In Con Tex by Con Tex

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Let me take a picture
of a river in a city
where the refuse from the sewer
flows on to another city.

Like one man's trash is another man's treasure
One man's trash is another man's memory

A postcard from the present,
signed and mailed into the river
so when sifting through the refuse
someday someone else will see it.

Like one man's trash is another man's treasure
One man's trash is another man's past

Picking up the pieces
that were left out of the puzzle
in a picture of a history book
I found outside the thrift store

Like one man's trash is another man's treasure
One man's trash is another man's trash

Gluing them together
with the water from the river,
rich with refuse, to the city
like a picture on a postcard

Like one man's trash is another man's treasure
One man's trash is another man's collage

And take another picture
of a city with a river
running through it like a sewer
flowing on to other cities

Like one man's trash is another man's treasure
One man's trash is another man's time

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from Everything In Con Tex, released November 30, 2011

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