Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026

Garbage Bag

Ahmad Al-Khatat was born in Baghdad. From Iraq, he came to Canada at the age of 10, the same age when he wrote his first poem back in the year 2000. He also has been published in several press publications and anthologies all over the world.

Garbage Bag

My neighbor is a single woman
she only smiles when she is drunk
Or high from smoking marijuana
Everyday she throws a garbage bag
and every night a stranger comes to
her small apartment for sexual pleasure
Lately, she cries by the sunset
And weeps when she sees
the garbage truck picking her bags
One day, I asked her about her sorrow
she said that her garbage bag is not
filled with trash it is filled with abortions






Article © Ahmad Al-Khatat. All rights reserved.
Published in the April 8, 2019 issue .
Image(s) are public domain.
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