Advice for next tenant

How to recycle styrofoam

How long do things live for /

Leaves / four weeks wet and grit on the hard shoulder /

Cigarette foil / three months composted under a wheel arch /

Orange peel / six months down the back of a sofa with the coins and the hair and the batteries /

Milk carton / five years at the landfill / a change of administration.
Plastic bag / twenty years flapping on a towpath in Camden / It used to hold stale ears of bread /

Ice cream tub / eighty years under a leak in the garage / Where are the photographs of your parents /

Plastic bottle / five hundred years deeper / clotted with bones

Styrofoam / never / If you left your cup of coffee on the sill it would outlive the sun that placed it there /