We need to stop
creating new names
for the toilet:

commode, john, throne, toilet, loo-

they all eventually come to mean
shitter,
and we already have enough ways
to say shitter.

I don’t have
very long hair, but still,
I pull from the drain
a rope-like clump of it,
and I imagine
that attached to the other end
might be something
meaningful and wonderful.

Instead, the water
no longer
backs up.