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Thank You!
By Sammy Ginsberg Thank you, thank poo! We would like to thank our amazing contributors for taking us seriously when we said, “please send you your toilet poems!” It is amazing and surreal to see so many poems and so many contributors and so many pages: Clive Matson, Bryn Wickerd, Ilana Gustafson, Troubadour Trixter, Maureen…
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5 Facts About Toilets That Will Help You Understand How Your Toilet is Saving Your Life
By World Toilet Organization, curated by Sammy Ginsberg A clean and safe toilet ensures health, dignity and well-being – yet 40% of the world’s population does not have access to toilets. The facts above are from the World Toilet Organization, a global non-profit committed to improving toilet and sanitation conditions worldwide. They believe in empowering…
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Not a pristine thing in sight
By Radhaika Kaipur Don’t expect me to say that word. I’ll tip toe around, dodging those contaminated places I’ll replace “toilet” with “bathroom” Feign retching if you bring up behaviours in “that department”. But why? Well, there’s nothing pristine in poo I felt the word “love” couldn’t be uttered by one that says “loo”… Haha.…
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My Bathrooms
By Anita McLaughlin the first was in a small stucco ranch built for GIs and their families my only memory my mom’s diaphragm hung from a hook behind the door when we lived in Alaska aluminum foil kept the midnight sun from the bathroom in summer winter, ice coated the window blackout curtains and the…
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Toilet Vignettes
By Mario Incandenza i. i asked her to cut off my finger standing at the entry way or was it exit watching her ride down the east london road perched atop a metallic bike rack foreheads touching i mumbled we entwined on the couch, Rod of Asclepius harmless snake or more cliche; serpent imploring to…
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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…