Thursday, November 14, 2024

for a good time call

no one
likes to use the public
bathrooms.
the ones in bus stops,
Trailway
depots, gas stations
and malls.
no one
wants to venture into
that slippery
world
of strange smells
and odd people who
never seem to
leave the stalls.
how careful you are to not
touch anything,
moving about with hands
held up
like a surgeon about
to operate,
and
who writes these things
on the walls.
who brings a sharpie pen
into the bathroom
and takes the time
to write a political essay,
or a poem,
or to draw large
body parts, with names
and numbers
beside them. underlining
the words,
for a good time call.

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