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Here I am…
Recycled
by Angela Yuriko Smith

My remains remain
entombed here beneath the road
The runoff and I

running off as one.
My temporary shelter
becoming my tomb.

I saved my planet
and reduced my carbon print
by reducing me.

Reused to nothing—
ultimate eco warrior
I have left no trace.

Now a pile of rag
and flesh. The ants recycle
and put me to use.

Fiction © Copyright Angela Yuriko Smith
Image courtesy of Rie Sheridan Rose.

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Angela Yuriko Smith is an American poet, author and co-publisher of Space and Time magazine, a publication that has been printing speculative fiction, art and poetry since 1966. Together we build a poem as a community each month. Visit “Exquisite Corpse” at SpaceandTime.net to submit.

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