reclined in the bath steaming old bones sweat in eyes looking over at the seat the throne of the house with swirling vortex water closet loo of the home the rounded lines ivory porcelain the ergonomic butt-ring metal hose tank flopper float and chain plastic hinges chrome knob lever often running to it to stand with seat up piddling around or seat down sit a spell to decompress squeezing in the siesta drop a load off read magazines books of poetry but like the odious ode from the purgative poem postage stamps a roll commanding a flush 2.8 10/10 © Brian Peter Hodgkinson
skip to my loo my darling
11
May