enquiry

reading fuller's interview
about his dayjob and his poetry
made me think about
the best job i've had
working as a janitor
at sac state but what i want
to know is why when i
was cleaning the bathrooms
would someone drop a turd
on the side of the toilet
rather than in the toilet

might be for some leaving
a little scat is a form
of art like a crude finger
painting or a limerick
grossly sung as horrible
auto-tuned against misery
well we all must eat shit
and die and not always in
that order of excretion
and consumption which
we can never recede from
either making our dinner
or making dirt on the pot
black matter that makes us
as we make it however much
we'd rather not think it thru

[revised on 4/4/11]