Society’s Cast –offs

(Free verse by Jacky Hutchinson)

Dejected ground
helpless to litter
                  chip cartons,
                 ‘Special Brew’ cans
                 ‘John Player’ packets
                  sweet wrappers.

strewn on its pavements
                  twisted cigarette stubs,
                  bin liners ripped open,
                  needles,
                  syringes
                  dog turds.


Angry spats of
                  bubble gum
                  plastic bottles
                  stamped onto concrete

                 
Discarded estates,
                  thrown away  
                  with contempt.
                  repulsive to us all.