Handout 2: Bladder Song

Beautiful orange sunset over a deep blue ocean.

Tapestry is Sunsetting

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Part of Exploring Our Values Through Poetry, High School

Leonard Nathan, “Bladder Song” from The Day the Perfect Speakers Left (C)1969 by Leonard Nathan and reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press.

On a piece of toilet paper

Afloat in the unflushed piss,

The fully printed lips of a woman.

Nathan, cheer up! The sewer

Sends you a big red kiss.

Ah, nothing’s wasted, if it’s human.