On Cleanliness

You don’t know what you value until you’ve had a chance to experience more of the world.

I often encourage the boys to branch out, to go forth, to see what’s around the corner

Because there is so much more.

Growing up in North America I didn’t realize what I was missing.

Cuisine, clothing, history. It’s all out there, waiting to be discovered.

But what really floored me

Is the way Southeast Asia takes good care of Uranus.

Not really astronomers, or space explorers, no spatial moves

But when it comes to keeping things clean in the nether regions

The simple spray nozzle/spigot, nestled not so subtly beside most toilets

Asks nothing, apart from a little bit of water pressure

And in return, grants a world of cleanliness

bestowing upon us the clean where it’s needed most.

Bum gun, we thank you, from the bottom of our bottoms.


Published by Radutti

Teaching in Ha Noi, screwing things up daily but surviving to write about it. ...everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?

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  1. THIS IS VERY FUNNY on a first (from the bottom) read and yet, I am pretty sure it is real in a bidet sort of way! WHO knew? Well now I do!

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  2. Hahahaha! I read this first in my email, because I follow you, and then came to it today at TWT and read your ‘teaser!’ I am sharing your poem with my husband, who is a huge fan of the little bidet adaptation I got him for our standard USA toilet. He will appreciate your potty humor! (I do too, just can’t admit it.)

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  3. I started to giggle part way through as I suddenly got the meaning of your teaser line, but I full on guffawed at your last line: “Bum gun, we thank you, from the bottom of our bottoms.” Bwahaha! Hilarious!

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