floating condoms, the defining
moment of the wastewater plant
field trip, the hands of the plant
manager, our tour guide, pointing
out the human population’s gift.
the city of Austin, late nineties,
our donor base at the time, had
been reduced to this great pool,
of top floating memorabilia.
tokens regularly assaulting
the system clarifiers, it
was explained, a plug of condom
infused wastewater alternating
with currents of beer content on
game days or from certain southern
sections of the city, he surmised,
one or the other, I can’t be
to sure which one for certain, but
truly, the take away for most
of us, had to have been the sheer
number of air infused balloons;
floating prophylactics swirling
and bobbing and being collected,
segregated, culled out, and shed;
fit not even for the Dillo dirt.
Gary Edward Geraci
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- Comment from author about the poem: WARNING! Overt “Bathos” poetry. May be unsuitable for those 18 and under or for those easily triggered or sensitive to mundane and repulsive subject matter. A human zygote is a fertilized ovum, requiring one man and one woman to conceive; ideally a married couple bound in a permanent, monogamous, sacramental marriage. Contrast this with what’s contained in the material of contraception - in the case of a latex condom - just one-half of this - and therefore sterile, non-procreative, a ghost of what it could have been - a “zy-ghost” I call it in the title line of my poem. If you’ll do a Wiki search on “Dillo dirt” you’ll learn something new today about Austin, Texas and you’ll also learn about the end destination of a portion of the treated by-products generated during the wastewater treatment process in Austin, something I studied rather diligently during college there and during my early career as a wastewater permitting engineer for the State of Texas. While writing in the bathos style may reveal a stylistic ‘low’ relative to an author’s more traditional, ‘high’ works, it may also reveal something new, perhaps a bit hidden, but something indeed riding along with the ‘high’ and sublime. I’ll leave this discovery up to you my dear reader!
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Anything related to your R.C. background in this?
Yes. Contraception is a sin according to the Roman Catholic perspective Orchidee. And I am the biggest sinner of them all O. Thank God for His even larger acts of mercy.
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