Street Work (Forced to Move My Car)
The manhole outside my window is smoking
And there is a fume emanating from my toilet bowl
They left a note two days ago saying they’d be working today
Plunging shit
Or something like that
They suggested pouring a litre of water down the drain
So nothing backed up
I forgot
Took a leak this morning and left it to sweat in the bowl
With the fume
And outside the window the manhole is smoking
Has been for over an hour
[Archive peace and justice]
Archive peace and justice, he wrote
I think it was a typo, he probably meant achieve
I hope he meant achieve
staring out the front window of the car
letting my forehead relax
eyes in soft focus
none of it matters
move to appalachia
or antigua
or some island where papayas grow
keep driving until we hit lake simcoe and build a dam
like beavers
or drive past it and find a tree somewhere
and take the lawn chair out of the trunk
winnie the pooh style
no pants
just shirt
live in a hobbit hole
hairy feet
up on the table
coffee made from mud or some shit
real livin’
sound like foghorn leghorn now
that’s real livin’
where boys grow up to be men who wrastle
gators and bears
real wrastlin’
steve irwin but northern ontario
we stop to fill up gas.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Hayden is a Toronto-based actor and poet. He has been featured by the League of Canadian Poets, stink Eye Magazine, and JLRB Press, among others. On Instagram, he shares work under @rudimentpoetry .
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