Used Tampons…

All bloody, icky, and smelly,

Washed, cleaned, dried, no longer cruddy,

Kinda the color of red, like the color herein,

More of a pink now, even bleach won’t draw,

Out the color of blood from a white underdraw…

Bringing them back to new, who knew?

They can do everything else, even removing tattoos,

So why not re-use tampons, saving money in the process,

No more sending out hubby to pick up some more in the middle of the night…

Finished with them you are, deposit them into this handy dandy baggie,

Put them in the secondary plastic bag they came with,

Then put them in the special trashcan marked used ones,

Allowing the guy who picks them up daily, to do his job, to make a buck,

Only to find someday, they are un-recyclable, changing for him his luck…

              © ed – 3/26/04