Sound Heard While Replacing The Basement Toilet
a ghostly whoosh
echoes down the open pipe
a toilet flushing
in a neighbor’s house uphill
yes, we are all connected.
I hardly ever do this but here’s a challenge to all you poets out there: write a poem about plumbing. There are no rules, write about anything – an ode to your favourite plunger, a sonnet about a dripping tap, a haiku about flexible hoses!
Link back to this post if you like, so I can read your poems.
Stopdraggingthepanda 
Challenge accepted! May take a while…..
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Hi Slim
Thought it appropriate to do a limerick, so I have two quick compositions for you
A plumber in Dublin, not very bright
Didn’t know his left from his right
When he connected the output
By mistake to the input
He gave himself a terrible fright
A plumber once had a mishap
When putting a washer on a tap
The accident was his worst
When the connection burst
And water spewed out through the gap
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Good stuff Tim, reminds me of my attempts at plumbing!
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Hmmm… we are all connected, except those of us on tank water with a septic system. 😀
Good challenge, I shall ponder it tomorrow at work.
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So I mentioned the plumping poem challenge to my husband and he just rattled this off, about his favourite plumbing tool he calls the de-clogginator2000, a strange long bendy metal thing with a spring thingy at one end:
There’s too much paper in it,
you’ve clogged it up again!
So now I have to go and get
my trusty plumber’s friend.
I poke it in and shove it round,
and poke it in some more.
It’s not a job that I enjoy,
it’s a job that I abhor.
But with the de-clogginator
with that weird corkscrew bit
and a handily long handle,
we’re no longer in the shit.
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A masterpiece, Kate, tell your husband thanks! Everyone should own a tool like that!
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