DO WHAT? –(stomas)
Some of the many things we do
is sort our stomas and the pooh,
which goes from bags to down the loo
and offers us a different view.
Most people’s pooh comes from their bum
but ours emerges from our tum,
so we do quite a lot it’s true
to cater to our stoma’s pooh.
It can be quite hard to adjust
and not treat stomas with disgust
thus, we must do this adjusting
just to help us with this thing.
Most toilets aren’t designed for us,
yet we’re expected not to fuss
and manage in whatever way
we do with pooh from day to day.
It’s just as well we have a bag
to catch our pooh and make it sag,
‘cos just imagine what we’d do
without a bag with wayward pooh.
Sometimes the bags will sag and leak
then what we do is take a peek
to see if we can salvage it
and so contain our wayward shit.
Changing bags can be a pain
but it’s not often we complain
as this is something that we do
so management won’t go askew.
Every day I irrigate
so I can circumnavigate
the many things that other’s do
to manage stomas and their pooh.
B. Withers 2024
