Beyond the Bathroom Door

rust
and iron
and water
up to my teeth
in shit

i am standing
wading
face deep
in said toilette

painter black
stinking of piss
gradually walking
spinning
sinking
away

to street corner
public urinal
a shrine and celebration
of human deification
and decay

i am sitting among
the refuse
of yesterday’s
exotic meal
regretting every moment
vomiting everything.

Nikolai Noel