Politics. Tissue on a bathroom floor
used and tossed, the intended function
fleeting as a flush.
Not to insult but
The pipes are clogged
the deodorizer spent.
No claims to deciphering the news
or how to fix the way it is
continually running on 
but here I am 
in the sewer system 
with the classes sinking
into lower economics
in the swirl of the drain
that starts in a full tank
and fills to empty us.


for the President
from ‘Life on Earth’ (Omerta Publications)