Bathroom inspiration at Vermillion Gallery, January 31, 2018.

Bathroom inspiration at Vermillion Gallery, January 31, 2018. Dave Segal

Unbeknown to me, somebody has expressed my mantra of the last eight months on Vermillion‘s men’s room wall. I raise my urine stream to you, anonymous channeler of the resistance‘s collective consciousness. (I would’ve added a comma after “hurry,” but I didn’t have a Sharpieยฎ on me.)

Dave Segal is a journalist and DJ living in Seattle. He has been writing about music since 1983. His stuff has appeared in Gale Research’s literary criticism series of reference books, Creem (when...