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Toilet Leadership
By Sammy Ginsberg Thank you Toilet! Thank you for listening always,holding space for our private excretions,taking our shit.Toilet for president!Toilet for prime minister!Toilet for pope!Oh, you’re an anarchist? This piece is from The Feminist Toilet #3. To return to the table of contents, click here.
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Reciprocity
By Billy Butler I’d been to his city before,but I was still a touristpushing against a currentof people so I could meet himfor dinner. We walked backto my hotel, a nicer roomthan I could afford, as the sun setover a hazy coast. We kissed.We came at the same timeand he cried a little. I said…
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For Your Convenience
By Frank Ortega A young Narcissus coming in from the rain kneels before the blow drier of a men’s public room. Stealing reflections selfish from its curved chrome he watches his hand style precious locks teased through hot forced air; strained, he dries also his pants. This piece is from The Feminist Toilet #3. To return…
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EVERY BATHROOM IN L.A. IS GAY NOW
By Karla Lamb for Vanessa An army of lovers shall not fail. — Rita Mae Brown How do I enter this poem? Do love justice? A party is a party is a party. We mark our territory, knock over piles of TP rolls at sapphic nights—in gay sports bars. & someone in the bathroom line…
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First Kiss in the Boys’ Bathroom
By Axel Jordan The boys’ bathroom always smelled like acombinationof sweat & soap that didn’t quite workand paper towels that tore too easily. Fluorescent lights humming overhead.Tile floors cold even through sneakers.Voices echoing from the hallwayjust beyond the door. We were in detention together that week,two boys pretending not to noticehow often we looked at…
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Untitled
By Tanya Gabrish I am of the earth,Sometimes being ground into the dirtand other timesSpringing off with bare feet. This piece is from The Feminist Toilet #3. To return to the table of contents, click here.
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I feel god inside this taco bell bathroom: a taco-entrapuntal
By Kristin Gustafson This piece is from The Feminist Toilet #3. To return to the table of contents, click here.
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Eradicate Automatic Flushing Toilets!
By T.D. Flenaugh An example argumentative essay by an elementary school teacher for her students Another automatic toilet? What an unnecessary excuse for an invention. Renovated business offices, stores, and government buildings feature this menacing modernization. Replacing old manual flush toilets with automatic flushing units threatens the water supply and negatively impacts the environment. It…
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for the wild lovers in every world
By Nancy Lynée Woo wild weather is upon us –wild wanderer, I wonder wherethe wildness goes –when it leaves –where do all the frogs gowhen they go extinct?what wild plane do we come from –us, the birds, the butterfliesand the bees?whoever is out to destroyall living things, I hex themwith my wild wand, my braveryand…
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Bathroom Politics
By Eric Morago Just before my bladder explodes,I notice the manufacturer’s logo—a bullseye staring back at me.Two words sit above the urinal cake like an ad campaign, suggesting I: Just do it. Have it my way. Make America great again. So, I take aim,and piss all overthe American Standard.*I do not flush.I wash my hands.I…