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Son of Jaws: Final Flush by Stewart Stafford
The toilet monster is dead,
He’d been looking flushed,
A plunger sucked its face off,
I don’t miss it, I’m not pushed.
The innocent never had a clue,
Sat on the porcelain throne seat,
They'd kissed their backsides goodbye,
Derrières on rows of razor teeth.
A call of nature, but none returned,
After closing the bathroom locks,
Shoes and knickers found later,
Twisted around frantic socks.
The awful beast left the building,
No critiques of the notori
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In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chapter where the cabin boy Pip falls overboard and is driven mad by the empty immensity of what he finds himself floating in. And when I teach school now I always teach Crane's horrific "The Open Boat," and get all bent out of shape when the kids find the story dull or jaunty-adventurish: I want them to feel the same marrow-level dread of the oceanic I've always felt, the intuition of the sea as prim
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― A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
― A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
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