by Pierre Minar
Is toilet paper racist?
These are the kinds of thoughts I have now
I want easy answers
A “Yes,” a small domino
Setting in motion a great fall
It would be so easy to be a martyr
Did I hallucinate Wikipedia
Saying a person’s whole psyche
Can be derived from whether he mounts
Toilet paper to unroll toward the wall
Or toward the penitent?
Surely not, you’re thinking, surely
It’s random, but that’s exactly the kind of thinking
Someone who pays no attention
To the mounting of toilet paper would think
Surely we could look it up, you say
A simple search—No,
There’s no time
We’re here only for a short while.
Pierre Minar is a poet from Lebanon living in Dallas. You can find links to his previously published poems on his website and you can find him on social media sites @donmexlar