CLOSE TO PARADISE by Stephanie Smith

The shit stains in the
toilet look like the
Hawaiian Islands

Cleaning that sucker
later on, you realize
that’s the closest you’ll
probably ever
come to paradise

3 comments:

  1. ariverflowsbySeptember 6, 2011 at 4:11 PM

    Oh, Stephanie. Paradise is one subject that's never come up when I'm cleaning toilets. It's sad to think that's as close as a person gets to paradise. You have an interesting sense of humor.

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  2. Stephanie SmithSeptember 9, 2011 at 8:27 PM

    Haha. I'm actually out of my element when it comes to humor. But thank you.

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  3. Peter GreeneOctober 11, 2011 at 10:32 AM

    If you leave them long enough, they grow long fibrils like waving kelp. Lovely, really. + thanks for the poem!

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