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Bathroom Etiquette from Model Citizen on Vimeo.

Enema from Model Citizen on Vimeo.

Lemon lip balm crust
And bits of the label
Balled up on the mantle.

Soft echo of a well wish
Rolling around
In a dried up bottle.

Flecks of spilt paint
Preserved between panels
Remember their color.

Thinking stool, turned table,
Half-turned kindling,
And last used for an idle gnaw;

Notes scratched on it
With the broken handle
Of a soft-bristled toothbrush:

“Initials hearts initials”
“I remember better”
“Think I’ll leave”

What looks the print
Of a half-dragged boot
Over the softly rotting threshold.

Naff’s fate is to listen well
To grateful unsaved souls.

Vagaries gently muddle his truth
And he comes to revel in indistinction—

Taking the yoke gratefully,
Like a spindly ox whose duties lighten with its self—

Who would give to sustain Naff
When his service is so singularly replaceable?

Yet even ease can be burdensome
To one made to be used,

And Naff slumps beneath
Noticing candidly—

Too late for joy or terror—
Nothing cannot be undone.