Student Pub Stall by David Alec Knight

On the right wall of the stall

above the toilet paper holder

was printed in pen, "Nietzsche said, 

God was dead."

In an annebriated sense of contrariness

I wrote below, "God said, 

Nietzsche was dead."

When next I had occasion to use 

the same stall, someone had added below,

"Are you for real?"

Under that, I drew a clown-like figure pointing

at a precarious stick figure on a tightrope.

David Alec Knight has had poems have appear in Wayzegoose, People's Poetry Letter, Canadian Writers Journal, and Verse Afire. Anthology appearances include The Sandwich/Mill Anthology, 10$ Cash Value: An Anthology Of Assets, Ellipsis..., and by The Wishing Tree. His first collection of poems, The Heart Is A Hollow Organ, will be out before year's end. David works in healthcare.