Nouveau Riche

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Chris Middleman

A huge box that once held
a plasma screen television

now lies, overturned by wind,
on the bone-white cement

in front of an urbane townhouse
Bloated with styrofoam,

the box will wait there for
six days until trash pickup

Author Bio: 

Chris Middleman grew up in Downingtown, Pennsylvania and now calls
Seattle his home.  His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in several
publications including The New York Quarterly and Zygote in My Coffee. He is a music writer for Spectrum Culture.