flush

cold-mouthed assassin

laying low on the street

busy bleedin from 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 tightrope balance

so this Oakland toilet

made in Rahway, NJ,

lends its hand

to form that wrong end prediction-

if you can’t do it in your head

you won’t make it out alive

then go visit the empire builders,

zero degrees left and

flush it one time,

straight ahead and

back out again to that now deserted highway

Oakland

‘73