Dilator
Hard as steel, I am the one
they use when vessels, ducts,
the gut, clog up. They
gently push me, pause, then push
again, not heeding groans and shrieks
of flesh that does not want to yield.And
when they pull me back, what pleases me:
(I have a plumber’s brain)
the gush of backed up stuff
flowing as it should.