Maybe laxatives hadn't
been invented, when I
was a boy. Or mama
never had the money.
We ate a hell of a lot
of beans and tortillas.
Sometimes I couldn't shit
for two or three days.
Mama must have read
a book written by a Nazi
torturer, about child rearing.
She'd whittle an asshole
sized plug from a bar of soap.
Then work up a lather
and jam it up my ass.
Squirming on the pot,
usually nothing happened.
Once in awhile I'd drop
a couple. She'd run in
grinning. "See honey,
it's for your own good."
My secret wish was
I could use my ass
like a cannon. I'd blow
that plug and an eight
inch turd into mama's
mouth. And say, "It
really worked that time,
I'd spit that out if
I was you."