latero story

( can pickers ) i am a twentieth-century welfare recipient moonlighting in the sun as a latero a job invented by national and state laws designed to re-cycle aluminum cans to return to consumer acid laden gastric inflammation pituitary glands coca diet rite low-cal godsons of artificially flavored malignant indigestions somewhere down the line of a cancerous cell i collect from garbage cans in outdoor facilities congested with putrid residues my hands shelving themselves opening plastic bags never knowing what to encounter several times a day i touch evil rituals slit throats of chickens tongues of poisoned rats salivating on my index finger smells of month old rotten food next to pamper's diarrhea dry blood infectious diseases hypodermic needles tissued with heroine water drops pilfered in slimy grease blood hazardous waste materials but i cannot use rubber gloves they undermine my daily profit i am a twentieth-century welfare recipient moonlighting during the day as a latero making it big in america someday i might become experienced enough to offer technical assistance to other lateros i am thinking of publishing my own guide to latero collecting and founding a latero's union to offer medical dental benefits i am a twentieth-century welfare recipient moonlighting at night as a latero i am considered some kind of expert at collecting cans during fifth avenue parades i can now hire workers at twenty five cents an hour guaranteed salary and fifty per cent of two and one half cents profit on each can collected i am a twentieth-century welfare recipient moonlighting at midnight as a latero i am becoming an entrepreneur an american success story i have hired bag ladies to keep peddlers from my territories i have read in some guide to success that in order to get rich to make it big i have to sacrifice myself moonlighting until dawn by digging deeper into the extra can margin of profit i am on my way up the opportunistic ladder of success in ten years i will quit welfare to become a legitimate businessman i'll soon become a latero executive with corporate conglomerate intents god bless america.