Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Antibacterial

Antibacterial

There isn’t a moist towelette
voluminous enough to clean
the world to our liking.

We wash our hands and have
to find a way out of the bathroom
without touching the door.

9 comments

  1. would cleaning help it anyway? I think it'd need more...

    thea.
    xx

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  2. how this rage for "cleanliness" isolates us from the real world -- it is a suit of armor made of condoms ...

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  3. Brilliant, Hannah. Love the power packed in this tiny poem! :)

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  4. This seems a good a time as any to tell you how much I appreciate that you share your poems so we all can read them without having to go to a library (not that that's a bad thing), spending money or having them filtered by professional worriers.

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  5. The paradox so wonderfully captured.

    I like the artist.

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  6. No kidding! And yes, I use all body parts to get out of the bathroom without touching the door knob. It appears that the solution would be a wave-motion activated door, like in Star Trek! : )

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  7. I feel this way whenever I'm the city using toilets in funky cafes, always using the damp towel to open the door before tossing it in the trash.

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  8. best just to jump in and blow the doors right off the bathrooms:)

    xo
    erin

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