My Ode to Toilet Paper

A while back while in my English 217 class my teacher told us to write an ode poem. It could be about anything we wanted it to be. I being a smart Alec and thinking that the assignment was stupid, wrote about toilet paper...but as I started writing it I realized there was a deeper meaning to it than I thought it would...so here it is and let me know what you think about it...

Ode to Toilet Paper...

Oh this toilet paper

How strong you are

It is straight and narrow

No twists and turns

I see you everywhere

Used for every purpose imaginable

How I would not want your job

Not in a million trillion years

Would I ever want your job...

You get crumpled up

And are flushed down the toilet only to be lost for ever

You are ripped, torn and shredded to pieces

Treated horribly with no respect

You end up in a waste land

your existence is purposeful and

meaningless at the same time...

You get stuck on the bottom of peoples shoes

You get stuffed up into places that

Would make a preacher blush

Oh toilet paper...

So white and clean

Until you are used...

Then you get dirty and tarnished

and then no one wants you...

It's like you have the scarlet letter A on you...

Plagued...never to be clean again

No one wants to be near you

No one wants to touch you

And no one wants to look at you.

Oh toilet paper...

Once used you are

Flushed down the toilet

To be lost for ever

How sad I am for you...

I don't know what you may think of it...but maybe there is a deeper meaning behind it...