flush

cold-mouthed assassin

laying low on the street

busy bleedin the hustlin crowds

who lost their way south

fighting off swarms of blighted mosquitoes

killer's shrunken belly deserves a meal,

then some drainage

when gasses and liquids

get bulletproofed, 

form a tightroped balance

so this Oakland toilet 

made in Rahway, NJ, ha!

lends its hand

forming a wrong end prediction:

if you can’t do it in your head

you won’t make it out alive

go visit the empire builders,

zero degrees left 

and flush one time,

then straight ahead and 

back out to that now deserted highway

Oakland

‘73