Sport 40: 2012
After Reading an Anthology
After Reading an Anthology
The piss stain at the bottom of the escalator in the
Miquel-Adickes-Allee underground station
I don’t claim that it’s better
than any of the many poems
I’ve read today
I just know that it says more to me
This piss stain at the bottom of the escalator in the
Miquel-Adickes-Allee underground station
Talks about someone under pressure
Signals that it absolutely had to come out
Testifies that whoever it was who felt this urge
Produced something in a gush:
This piss stain at the bottom of the escalator in the
Miquel-Adickes-Allee underground station
Then I think of the voices
That have spoken to me today: no
pressure, no urge, no
zing, no danger, no
bite, no compulsion,
no urine, no brain.