sparring
in the evening sunshine
eggs and chips
© Rachel Green April 2025
IV.II
The toilet here has lived with bitter terms
to tell by crusted stains of recent use
The bowl a petri dish mutating germs
through weeks of cruelty and abuse.
Anything within that swampy soup
of putrid waste has been unflushed for days
she does not dare to even touch the loop
of chain where strange bacteria graze.
She tries the bathroom sink and is rewarded
only with a few drops from the empty pipe
Any try for hygiene would be thwarted
unless she brought with her a cleansing wipe.
© Rachel Green April 2025
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