Last poem of the semester -- Toilet Graffiti

Toilet Graffiti is raw, fragmented, and often humorous or crude—perfect for playful constraints.

 

Ode to the Canadian Stall Wall!

A source-based constraint (found text) poem 

by Stephen Weir 108-855-362

 

A smelly assignment I gave myself by exploring

the public washrooms of Toronto and Windsor searching out Graffiti written on washroom stall walls. I also appealed to my many Facebook andTwitter (X) followers and received several examples I was not aware of. They are included in this non-fiction poem 

Extinct.Pay toilets. Only found one in Toronto. I am a dollar down in expense money to get this humourous stall wall wisdom!

1.    “Here I sit broken hearted, paid a looney and only farted.

 

The 100-year old men’s washroom in Toronto’s Union Station has many stalls that sport many philosophical thoughts written in unwashable black ink. 

2.    “For a good time, try thinking for yourself.”

 

The men’s loo in the CAW Student Centre has a few wall thoughts in the stalls at least one written during exams season reads like a statement  of failure

3.    “I came in here lost. I’m leaving slightly more confused.”

 

Blame it on President Trump. In one of his public wandering-brain moments he extolled to the media, about the staying power of his black Sharpie pen. 

I think all blog poets use them too to wax philosophical on the stall walls of the nation.

          4.“This shitter stall knows all my secrets and judges none.”

Warning. Don’t Do It. Put your phone down.

5.For a good time call 416-967-1111 

links you directly to Pizza Pizza. They won’t deliver to a curious stall squatter.                      

One for the road. I am going to slip out of this class Sharpie leaking indelible ink into my Canadian tuxedo pocket to write to my fellow male classmates one end of term bonmot.

         6.Flush your fears—this is where bad ideas come to pass. No pictures please I was shy and didn’t want to take a tripod into a smelly stall with soiled toilet paper stuck to the floor. 

 



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