THERE IS A NEW SCAVENGER There is a new scavenger...
on 15th street
A woman
the garbage piles are not higher
or of a better composition
Yet there is a new scavenger
on my street
I see her in the mornings
poking slowly with a stick
her sack half full, half rotted
What can it mean
I ask
And pass her by
My heart secure behind a handkerchief

- Lorena Barros
1968