Thursday, February 27, 2020

Who's Gonna Make Me?

I don’t have to either shit
(even though I’ve been sitting here for a while)
or get off the pot.
I’ll wait a bit.
There’s a pile
of magazines in here, so I’ll be OK whether I shit
or not. Well, I’m looking at a back-lit
photo of a palace on the Nile.
Everyone is smoking pot
under the palm trees, or wading out
where crocodiles
lurk like blobs of shit
floating in a blue toilet.
If it’ll be a minute it’ll be a mile
between here and wherever I’ll get off the pot—
swimming in plasma like a sunspot—
azimuth between my bare bum and the Polestar—
my limit of having to finally shit
or get off an empty pot.