Ig Loo

It’s an Ig Loo! In physics, the Ig

Got awarded for showing, with trig,

Loos should aim to stop pees

Over thirty degrees—

Or the spray that comes back is too big!

 

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His poems have appeared in Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Light, Lighten Up Online, the New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, WestWard Quarterly and other journals. In 2025 he won the Children’s Unpublished category of the Eyelands Book Awards with Flora’s Flock and Other Stories to Read Aloud. The poem was prompted by the CBC story “Canadian who helped design splash-free urinal is proud of his weird science award.”