Disregarded, discarded
like a junkyard car
teetering on cinder blocks.
Worth no more
than trash in the gutter
or a piece of gum stuck to
the sole of a shoe.
That's what I was to you
in the end.
I was just fatty scraps left for
the dog,
an old ketchup-stained fast-food
wrapper floating on a breeze,
an animal carcass rotting
on...