When I was quite young and barely a lad,
my mum would opine that the food I had
would manifest itself in numerous ways
and cause me to shit for three whole days.
But as any young upstart with no sign of a bulge,
I ignored her counsel and continued t'indulge;
binge-eating the pies, the curry and rice --
anything with carbs I'd consume in a trice.
But my gluttony did cause the same nightly result:
at three every morning to the toilet I'd bolt.
Clutching my stomach with pains so acute,
so desperate to release the wet poo from my chute.
It would start with a pseudo-solid log that would fool
me into thinking I'd been blessed with a manageable stool.
Slipping slowly underwater like a brown submarine,
jettisoned from my rear end as my face turned green.
Then, as in Hold 'Em, I'd wait for "the flop" --
and that fateful loud splash as my guts I did drop.
A gallon of warm liquid enveloping the logs
as I struggle to squirt the turd clear from my togs.
A steady brown fountain of shit now poured;
fists clenched tight as I prayed to the Lord;
my face contorted with this pain I abhorred --
my exit wound punctured as if by Samurai sword.
To continue these habits I could now ill afford;
of shitting daily like this, I was now rather bored.
* * *
Looking down and my watch says it's almost three-thirty;
looking back there behind me the pan's brown and dirty.
Looking left, the bog roll's disconcertingly diminished --
looking forward to the time when my sore arse has finished.
* * *
I realize at this point that my incorrigible feeding
is the cause of my anguish. (And my crack is now bleeding).
And to make matters worse, my foot had got cramp --
How can't you wake the house while trying to stamp?
With the cramp now gone I face the grim task
of using a half-roll of paper to clean my torn arse.
Now rising from my seat and without a word,
I stepped back from my throne to admire my turd.
A splattering of sorts met my now-drowsy gaze,
varied in content with a smell to amaze.
I now delicately folded three-plied sheets in two,
gently mopping my ring to soak up the poo.
I thought, "God, what I'd give for a wet wipe right now" --
it felt like my anus had given birth to a cow.
At a quarter to four I'm still wiping my arse;
this nightly poo ritual was becoming a farce.
So what is the moral of this story I tell?
With diarrhea this bad, you're halfway to Hell.
So please take heed or the shits you will greet
And as my mother once said: "You are what you eat."