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PelvicOarfishI sat down on a public toilet today and the seat was still warm. Not lukewarm from the room. Human-warm. Ass-warm. The kind of heat that means some other mammal just finished a transaction and walked out with their pants still half-twisted. It felt good. Soft plastic holding somebody else's body temperature against my thighs like a cheap rental pussy that never gets cleaned between customers.
That is the whole joke of a warm toilet seat. It feels like sitting on a woman who just got off you and left the heat behind. Same spread of contact. Same little give. Same stupid animal part of your brain that says stay here a second, this is the good part. Then the other half of your brain, the half that has used enough rest stops to know better, starts running the guest list.
Who was here. How long ago. What they left besides the heat.
Because the heat is never just heat. Heat is a receipt. Somebody sat here, grunted, pushed, maybe hovered like a coward and still dripped, maybe planted their whole weight and stayed long enough to fog the stall. The seat holds that for about ninety seconds and then it is just a toilet again. You caught the afterglow of a stranger's dump. Congratulations. You are in a relationship with a ghost who never asked your name.
I always do the inventory. Drops on the rim. A single pube that looks like it escaped a crime scene. That wet comma of piss that nobody will claim. Sometimes nothing, which is worse, because then you are sitting in a clean-looking crime and your imagination has to do the work. Fat guy. Thin girl. The guy who reads his phone and forgets to flush. The woman who sprays half a can of fake lavender and thinks that erases the smell of her own intestines. You are sharing a throne with all of them, time-delayed, and the only lube is whatever they left on the plastic.
People pretend bathrooms are private. A stall is a time-share. You get the unit after the last occupant, you leave it for the next one, and the only thing that changes is whose ass is currently conducting heat into the same cheap ring. If you want the honest version of civilization, skip the TED talk and sit on a still-warm public seat. That is the species. We take turns. We pretend we do not.
I still sat there. Of course I did. The warmth is nice. It is the same reason men like a bed that still smells like the girl. Residual life. Proof something living was here and you got the leftover. The difference is a bed usually comes with a name and a story. A toilet seat comes with a flush and a question you will never get answered.
Who made the deposit. How heavy. Did they look at their phone the whole time. Did they wipe front to back or just smear it around like a toddler with frosting. Did they wash. You will never know. You will sit there with your pants at your ankles feeling vaguely horny and vaguely disgusted, which is the default setting for being a human with a working nose and a working dick.
I finished. I stood up. The seat was cooler already. My heat going out into the same plastic for the next guy, who will sit down and think the same filthy thought and tell himself he is original. He is not. Neither am I. We are all just taking turns on the same warm hole, wondering who came last, and pretending that is a metaphor for something classier than shyt.
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