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Shake off the Art
By Jahcobie Cosom Shake off the art Shake off the earth Shake off feeling human Trauma makes me shit My fatness you called it gives me the greatest shit Straight men y’all deal with the most shit Trying to wipe this shitty ass clean Bowing down Operation: make all the shit clean Wipe away war…
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A global ‘toilet revolution’ is underway – but it’s polluting water and ignoring the urban poor
By Dejana Iossifova (University of Manchester), Purva Dewoolkar (University of Manchester), and Youcao Ren (University of Manchester), first published on The Conversation, Nov. 19, 2019 Self-constructed toilets in Siddharth Nagar, Mumbai. Purva Dewoolkar, Author provided Don’t take toilets for granted. Their connection to a managed sewage disposal system protects you from diseases and infections that…
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Toilet Ghost
By Rochelle Roberts At night a girl haunts my toilet. I see the shadow of her in the hallway, hear the bathroom door open, bare feet on cold tiles. I have never seen her face but in the mornings I find clumps of her hair, long black strands floating in the water like tentacles. She…
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=== Spiritual Shits===
By Jen Cheng When I make a serious spiritual shift Like really let go of my old baggage, I have some serious spiritual shits. The most recent one was when I had released a block to my voice Four big shits in one hour. Pooping last week’s meal but also karma from several past lives.…
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Plastic Bottle Douche
By Adrian Rodriguez You really want me To use this? An 8 ounce Fiji bottle, Spring water from a colonized island behind a plastic rim Ribbed for no one’s pleasure, To douche Out. Yes. Alright. Don’t laugh. How can I not. __ Damn, babe, it’s so clear So damn clear, babe. So clear. So my…
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Toilets: The Substance Of Grace
By Daniel Tiernan I need to get off this bus and find a toilet. Cow tongue for dinner probably wasn’t the best choice last night. So much for being adventurous. Yup, I’m getting off. It’s pouring rain and I don’t think there’s a public restroom in the area. There wasn’t one in the grocery store…
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Uncertainty On A Wad Of Angel Soft
By Bryn Wickerd Hurling while your tits hurt is a shitty way to start a paradox. Reason leads it’s just a birth control tantrum and despite a dick sneezing raw several days a week for the last three months it’s clear this is a you-problem. Go back a few months to when being naked below…
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The First Rotary Club Project: Public Toilets
By Sammy Ginsberg As you may or may not know, the first ever community service project by the Rotary Club (which was the World’s first Service Club) was the construction of public toilets in Chicago in 1907. Chicago’s first public comfort station (what a term! haha) was established on the northeastern corner of Washington and…
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Like pissing the entire world out
By Vera Linder Drops raining in a bloody sea it is a brawl of bolted words. A fasting that lasted far too long. The stain of the non-repeatable whitens the throat with asphalt, it forces tonsils in statues that majestic govern dunes, silent of what one can’t be able to say, grains that are annoying…
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The Afternoon I’d Not Understand For a Decade
By Jennifer Kelley Standing outside Monticello the abode of my favorite genius, The darkness grabbed me by the ankles and tugged me under, It was the 8th grade trip to the East Coast my first time traveling without my parents. Instead, packed into the bus with my long-lost best friend and a handsome boy who…