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From:
Darius, Julian. CLOSE. St. Louis, Missouri: Gentle Scorpion Press, 6 October 2001.
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[begin page 78]
"The Dirty Man"
by Julian Darius
Call no man
“dirty”
for not flushing the toilet
(though it’s full of shit
mingling distastefully around toilet paper)
nor for failure
to wash his hands afterward
(perhaps he is of a professorial disposition,
properly absent-minded of such trivial matters);
call no man
“crude”
when reading in the john
(there are worse things to break propriety for)
-- no,
call a man
“dirty”
when he places the book he reads
on the floor of the stall
even propped up against the stall’s corners.
[end page 78]
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Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 by Julian Darius. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever, including electronic, without documented permission except for brief excerpts used for review purposes.
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