Junk

JUNK

noun
1. Discarded material, such as glass, rags, paper, or metal, some of which may be reused in some form.
2. Informal
a. Articles that are worn-out or fit to be discarded.
b. Cheap or shoddy material.
c. Something meaningless, fatuous, or unbelievable.
3. Slang - Heroin.
4. Hard salt beef for consumption on board a ship.
-adj.
1. Cheap, shoddy, or worthless.
2. Having a superficial appeal or utility, but lacking substance.



Most people called it junk
But he had the soul of a poet
Collecting discarded love
Along the way.

A more worldly man might have dubbed himself an artist.