{"id":1816,"date":"2016-04-06T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T04:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:50","slug":"april-6-can-trash-be-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/04\/06\/april-6-can-trash-be-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"April 6 &#8212;  Can trash be beautiful?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday,<\/p>\n<p>I was meeting with some people yesterday and the topic of relentless on-campus trash came up; \u00a0same stories \u2014 throw-aways from MacDonalds, and soon enough, Burger King, \u00a0cigarette butts, plastic grocery bags caught in spring tree branches. \u00a0Like . . . . \u00a0<strong><u>Stuff and more Stuff<\/u>\u00a0! \u00a0<\/strong>Trash often feels so inevitable that ignoring can look like the sane alternative to ranting. \u00a0 But some artists and poets think otherwise and create evocative, well-crafted statements about our throw-away habits. \u00a0Some years ago the Milwaukee Museum created a large special exibit on American cities. \u00a0As with many special exhibits you followed a pre-designed path through the artifacts \u00a0\u2014 traffic lights, \u00a0bus stops, \u00a0parking lots, \u00a0creative new designs for the street-faces of buildings etc. urban designs each with its role and purpose. . . . \u00a0and <strong><u>then<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0you round a corner in the exhibit pathway and encounter a very large pile of urban trash; \u00a0my memory suggests that the pile was c. 20 feet across and 12-15 feet high, randomly assorted stuff, just there . . . <strong><u>BAM<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0! \u00a0 \u00a0The trash exhibit, I read somewhere, annoyed, even outraged, museum goers. \u00a0But I bet no one ever forgot it; \u00a0a masterful exhibit therefore.<\/p>\n<p>So, as a tip of my hat to the people with whom I was trash talking yesterday, here are two \u00a0pretty cool poems. \u00a0If you want more, go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hellopoetry.com\/words\/7179\/trash\/poems\/\">http:\/\/hellopoetry.com\/words\/7179\/trash\/poems\/<\/a>. \u00a0Some poems here I love, some I think are a little weak. \u00a0These two I love. \u00a0 \u00a0Enjoy this middle day of the work week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Posts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/04\/EscapingReality.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1818\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1818 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/04\/EscapingReality.jpg\" alt=\"EscapingReality\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/hellopoetry.com\/escapingreality\/\">escapingreality<br \/>\n<\/a>Feb 25, 2015<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/hellopoetry.com\/poem\/1094945\/trash\/\">trash<\/a>\u201d<br \/>\nits funny how<br \/>\ndesperately<br \/>\nyou wanted to<br \/>\ntake my heart<br \/>\naway from me<br \/>\nand now you&#8217;re<br \/>\njust throwing<br \/>\nit away like<br \/>\nyour old cds<br \/>\n(n.b., I can\u2019t seem to find the name of the poet on the site)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellopoetry.com\/poem\/770088\/poets-shakespeare-and-trash\/\">Poets, Shakespeare and Trash<br \/>\n<\/a>A poet must read equal amounts<br \/>\nof trash and Shakespeare to learn<br \/>\nhow to distinguish between the two.<\/p>\n<p>Attributed to:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/04\/SmartassRabbi.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1817\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1817 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/04\/SmartassRabbi.jpg\" alt=\"SmartassRabbi\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/hellopoetry.com\/l-7\/\">\u03b2\u03ad\u01a6\u1e99\u1e3d D\u1e4f\u1e7d the Smartass Rabbi<br \/>\n<\/a>Jul 4, 2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, I was meeting with some people yesterday and the topic of relentless on-campus trash came up; \u00a0same stories \u2014 throw-aways from MacDonalds, and soon enough, Burger King, \u00a0cigarette butts, plastic grocery bags caught in spring tree branches. \u00a0Like . &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/04\/06\/april-6-can-trash-be-beautiful\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}