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Plummer's Take
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Tending to life's endless details...


Cracked and rocky faithful throne
Ever running water tank
Frayed flapper on the blink

What’s a body to think?

Corroded nuts and frozen bolts
Rusty toilet flange
Wax ring gasket spent

What’s a body to do?

Soggy rotten floor
Daylight filtering from beneath
Malodorous wafting scent

Oh most humble teacher
Sage counselor
Trusted friend
Be ye ignored no more!



--C.G. McGovern-Bowen, Westlake Village, CA 6/19/04

Copyright © 2004 Carolyn G. McGovern-Bowen
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 Reviews of "Plummer's Take"
Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater
Reviewed on March 2, 2009
Left it purposely and wisely in a deceptive state of disrepair to those to sit in their own excrement on the cracked porcelain and leaking betrayal of rotteness...because I want you to know...the "Grand Experiment" of religious cult manipulation and brainwashing...dirty stench intention to catch it in a public sewer trap...validated...

Sage

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on June 24, 2004
Poet, you are good!My poems may sometimes belong
in the commode,but you actually wrote about one
with creativity!;-)

Reviewed by na na (Reader)
Reviewed on June 24, 2004
Well looks like the smell finally defeated you. I can see it was finally time to take action. This is somewhere we have all been isn't it. Good write. Bill

Reviewed by ya mama (Reader)
Reviewed on June 23, 2004
i dig this!

Reviewed by Thomas Lanechanger (Reader)
Reviewed on June 20, 2004
Being a semi-retired General Contractor, I can relate to this flowing poetry, Poet…lol!!! I enjoyed the read, but, not the stench…lol!!! Man the bucket brigade…lol!!!

Reviewed by Zenith Elliott
Reviewed on June 20, 2004
Excellent imagery, I never thought I'd enjoy reading about a toilet. You are truly a gifted writer...~Z~

Reviewed on June 20, 2004
This is a symbolistical masterpiece. "Plummer's Take" will strike thoughts of this and many generations throughout the millennia.

Never rest Your pen, Sublime Poet!

Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on June 20, 2004
Interesting take on one of life's many endless details!


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