Bathroom Horror


The blackest of all blacks
	runs deep through
The reddest of all reds
	in your spurting blood that canvases
The whitest of all tile whites
	in the bathroom
		I wince as you walk into
The darkest of all bedrooms
	to find the sting stick
That stings the most of all styptic sticks
	to apply it to your
Stupidest of all stupidities -- the razor cut
	I smile scratching my stubbled face


R. David Paine III
1/9/87
4:20 PM