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There’s a fabulous beast in my neighbourhood -
It’s called the Garbage Truck.

It arrives every morning and gobbles up

Everything that we call yuck !

Its mouth is in its rear -end

And it’s always gaping wide.

In its head it’s got a human

Who takes it for a ride.

When it’s done its rounds you’ll see

Stuck between its pointy teeth,

Curls of peel and plas c bags fabulous : extraordinary

Fish bones and shreds of meat. gobbles : eats hurridly
rear : back side of something
gaping : wide open
And when it’s full, it spits it out -
monstrous : having an ugly appearance
Wack-thoo – onto a garbage dump.

And that’s why this monstrous beast

Never gets fat or even plump!

–Sampurna Cha erji

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