Ghazal of Removal
Starting with a line from Sarah Ederer's "Basic Needs"
There's shit on the floor. It must be removed. Remove it.
Yes. The cats won't do it themselves. We should remove it.The warlord sees his neighbor not as a country, but as crap,
a shameful hole, not to be healed. He would remove it.The rocky road beckons from the freezer; Snickers from the dish;
You can't resist the temptation of a favorite food. Remove it.There lies the pile of papers. Here lie I, eyes drooping.
But "grading" clogs my list. I should be good—remove it?In the crumbly moonlit nest, a grumpy cuckoo squats,
squawking. It is that old usurper, selfhood. Remove it.Plastic bottles, barbie dolls, McDonald's straws—
Waste piles up. Lay waste to waste, or we're screwed. Remove it.The colonoscopy found a friable mass, shedding
flakes yet growing fast. Thank God they could remove it.Professor, do as you profess: Revise. Delete.
To affirm the best, negate the shit. It's crude? Remove it.After writing this, I saw my ginger cat
had left a gift. He stared at me. "Dude. Remove it."
