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This essay queries the relationship between humans and their coveted and discarded objects. It is a meditation on object disposability, with keen attention to how maternal life and forms of waste making are vital to a reconsideration of what it means to be human. The essay unfolds through autotheoretical sketches and engagements with various texts, including Fabrice Monteiro’s photographic collection The Prophecy (2015) and Allan Sekula and Noël Burch’s The Forgotten Space: A Film Essay Seeking to Understand the Contemporary Maritime World in Relation to the Symbolic Legacy of the Sea (2010).