Issa and My Ass

 

 

            You may think there is no poetry in

            Cleaning out a shitter

            But you are wrong

            You are wrong

 

            When you pull out a piece of metal

            Covered in five people’s waste

            And it splatters in your face

            That is poetry

            Cha cha cha

 

            When you are pulling brown hair that was

            Originally blonde

            From the place where all your

            Pretty waste was

            Issa would probably think:

 

            A fine moment for a

            Haiku

 

            And he is right:

 

            In the shit season,

            Dysentery cha cha cha

            That’s the poetry.

 

            When the drain finally clears

            I will see the end of the pipe

            As a man sees to heaven

            And I will smile with

            Understanding

 

            Build an outhouse

            The Buddhist says

            THIS

            Is the path to enlightenment

 

            The people who fear the shit snake

            Are the people who would never

            Dirty their hands

            With a poem.