Today is Global Garbage Man Day. So we pause to think of the sanitation works and refuse collectors who work while we rest.
Some of the most important work is done before dawn.
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Dawn drapes
Streetlamps soften
The collector sets off
For the homes where soothed souls sleep
To toil.
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Gathers
Battered boxes
Wilted fronds and flowers
Empty containers that others
Discard.
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Curtains
Closed to his call.
Cars roll quietly by.
Mr. Smith gives a wave and steps
Away.
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Street shines
As he collects
When the curtains are closed
And wakeful ones decide not to
Look on.
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Mirrors of the Mind by Michelle Liew is a collection of psychological and supernatural short stories that explore the quiet unease beneath ordinary moments. These are not tales of spectacle, but of subtle fracture — where memory distorts, silence speaks, and the self is not always singular. In these stories, what is unseen often carries the greatest weight, and what lingers is not what is shown, but what is felt.
