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      February 8, 2015Beth GylysLevels of Shit or Thom Tillis Rejects Government Regulation

      Winters, the round brown
      balls of manure would
      fall steaming in untidy piles,
      the horses unperturbed,
      their noses in a bucket of grain,
      or grazing the dusty floors
      of their stalls, simply lifted
      their tails and let loose.
      Later, those same stones,
      frozen, thrown well and hard
      might have shattered
      someone’s window. It was easy
      to trip on one, random rolled
      into the barn aisle: innocent
      icy rocks of shat grain we shoveled
      or pitchforked into wheelbarrows,
      dumped in a pile, their fragrance
      diminished in the subzero temperatures,
      though the mountains we’d raise
      before the tractor hauled them away
      were impressive. The horses
      continued to eat and excrete,
      and we kept scooping. We didn’t worry
      what came out of assholes.
      We recycled that shit. Something
      now I can’t imagine as I sit
      watching this screen, and it comes
      from another hole, with no way
      to pile or pass along or diminish.

      from Poets Respond

      Beth Gylys

      “Early this week Thom Tillis claimed that he didn’t mind if Starbucks no longer followed a government regulated mandate that restaurant employees wash their hands after using the bathroom. Tillis believes in a self-regulating market and said ‘as long as a restaurant puts up a sign letting people know they no longer follow the mandate, the market will take care of that problem.’ He thus undermined his argument against regulation by imposing another regulation. How could I not jump on that subject?”

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