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Hold Onto Your Trash

Tiny plastic liquor containers are called nips.

We put them up to our lips and keep taking sips

until they’re empty. But here’s the problem.

Wherever I walk in Essex

I see their numbers growing.

They’re at my feet, in the woods and on the street

in the fall amidst the leaves even when it’s snowing.

We are currently in a pandemic of nips.

But the good news is

there’s no need to get vaxes!

That bad news is

if we fail to solve this

pollution problem,

we will be taxed,

litter-ally speaking.

Litter isn’t litter until it’s on the ground.

You’ll see it when you open your eyes

scattered all around.

So let’s not kick the beer cans down the road any longer. And that also applies to styrofoam cups, soda bottle, cigarette butts, paper, and cardboard packages, tin foil, etc.

Just think of your trash container as a litter box.

Yes, there’s a simple solution

and I think you know it.

Hold onto your trash

until you get home

then you know where to throw it!

Stan Deitz

Essex