Leaves from a garden
Bread rolls that harden
A page from last week's grocery ad
Moldy potatoes, half-chewed tomatoes
That broken toy was last year's fad
Politicians' "Vote For Me"
Mingled with some storm debris
(D) and (R) find common ground
With filled up disposals and shut-it-down proposals
No good solution can be found

Plaster and concrete
Waste oil and spoiled meat
A paper filled with last week's news
Kleenex with one sneeze, blue jeans with torn knees
And half a pair of tennis shoes
Sticks and stones and broken bones
Obsolescent landline phones
Come to final resting place
And sooner or later, that leaky radiator
Goes to Kansas City's landfill

Ripped socks and worn shocks
Mood Rings and Pet Rocks
A book nobody ever read
Cornflakes and leaf rakes
Tent stakes and cupcakes
The mattress from a baby's bed
Busted Chinese cuckoo clocks
Contents of a litter box
An expired prescription pill
While discards compacting, there's activists reacting
To the Kansas City Landfill

Stuff in disorder
Junk from a hoarder
A cracked ceramic coffee cup
Ash from a fireplace
Things taking up space
Nobody cares where they wind up
Human productivity
Threatens the ecology
New grows old, it always will
When it finally meets doom
Better hope there's still room
In the Kansas City Landfill