When I ran into Charles Bukowski in
A men's room at Santa Anita in 1980
He joked that you should never bet on
A horse that the guy at the next urinal
Touts you on. We laughed about it
And then I mentioned how when
I was going around Mexico in 1965
I didn't have a bowel movement
For two weeks on account of
How scary the bathrooms were.
'No shit!' he said. We laughed
About it and he asked if when
At long last I did defecate was it
Anything special and I said 'Nah.'