Twosy

There are two ways to flush your ID:

With the rest of your fibrous debris,

Or as is—straight away,

Sans a risky delay …

Yet they both come with no guarantee!

 

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His poems have appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, the Creativity Webzine, Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Grand Little Things, Light, Lighten Up Online, the New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, WestWard Quarterly and other journals. The poem was prompted by the LBC story, “UK-bound flight ‘forced to divert’ after passenger ‘ate his passport’ and another tried to flush theirs down the toilet.”