Sentence:  [...] I was sleeping with my head on the wooden arm of a seat as six attendants of the theater converged with their night's total of swept-up <WSD>rubbish</WSD> and created a huge dusty pile that reached to my nose as I snored head down—till they almost swept me away too. [...] Had they taken me with it, Dean would have never seen me again. He would have had to roam the entire United States and look in every garbage pail from coast to coast before he found me embryonically convoluted among the <WSD>rubbishes</WSD> of my life, his life, and the life of everybody concerned and not concerned. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Garbage, junk, refuse, trash, waste.