Everything put into a poor fridge spoils. A solution to this problem: to only ever attempt to preserve in such a fridge things already spoiled, as well as those things improved by spoilage. Much of the world, happily, falls into one of these two categories. Poor Fridge is Mark Francis Johnson's record of a year spent prepping for a future consumed – except for the most and least spoiled parts – by the past.

Poor Fridge includes an afterword by poet Nora Fulton.