Poetry Corner: Waste Mismanagement

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So the chiming clock

And the timing hour hand

Sent every dozing eye to sleep land

 

And oh nature had called at an hour so odd

A call he must honour…at all cost

 

At an hour he did not suspect…he had received nature’s call

At a place he did not respect…he had answered nature’s call

 

He looked back at the call

That call…that sent him out that odd hour

 

See where you fall…in the free zone of putrefaction

Shame how you fall…like a product of incubation

 

So he played the game of shame

He named this shame…the game with a name

A game of open defecation

 

And so he laid the blame squarely

On nature’s calling…on a troubling belly

 

II

The very eyes of the beholders…were looking on

The onlookers were beholding

And behold!

There was a pissing spree

 

Oh this his pissing pastime

Pissing…just as in times past

 

He looked on the right side..and then on the left side

He chose to piss there…right there

On their left side

 

Hei! he pissed

He pissed onlookers off

 

He passed by the eyes of the beholders

He pissed in their midst…in the midst of onlookers

 

He wasn’t a loner…so he realized

She was on his side

 

She was spraying the wee wee in a wee bit…as she pissed

Pissing off everyone

Pulling every eye along

Pushing every masculine eye off…to see no evil

 

She parted every covering…clothing her

Pissing everyone off

She squatted into a bowlegged pose

Spurting and spilling as she rose

Squinting at those who admired her pose

 

III

Mr Mucus

Brother Phlegm

Sister Saliva

Senior Sputum

 

The siblings conspired to split his side…with a spit

 

The siblings used to lie in chesty, throaty

quietness

Now they quicken quite a mouthful…of spit

 

A temptation he could not refuse

A spitting he did not resist

 

He spits to forfeit a dignity…on the streets

He spits to spew indignity…upon all he meets

 

IV

His nose…nosed around

To pick up dust that arose unsettled

And then the dust settled in his nose…into a sticky dose

 

He picked up the dust…from his nose

He picked his nose of the dusty, sticky, dose…from his nose

Unto his forefinger

 

And upon his forefinger it lingered…and lingered

Till he delivered in a handshake…in a handshaking galore

 

V

Once upon a litter box

He posted his litter in a box

 

Once again at a litter post

He posts his litter on a spot

He dares to litter late…into the watercourse

 

He reads the weather with the weather man…for a pouring rain

He litters the drains in the rain

Now and again

 

He dares to wait for a fine…on the spot

He must have a date with a sanitation court

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