It flailed about and wiggled its legs as I flushed it out of sight.

Before my very eyes, these public officials reached out and flushed down the toilet 100 thousand of our votes mine included.

And sometimes you can see it even closer than that, because the heads on ships that's toilets, for any land lovers that are listening are flushed with unfiltered seawater that often has bioluminescent plankton in it.

It's almost as if somebody came into your home and rewired your walls so that the next time you turned on the light switch, the toilet flushed three doors down, or your dishwasher went on, or your computer monitor turned off.

As Pakistanis, our collective excreta are flushed out of our homes into the underground system, which the sanitary workers are employed to maintain. Their jobs are dual firstly, to clean the sewerage system with little to no protection, no gear, no acknowledgement of occupational hazards and no provision of healthcare. Secondly, this regular cleaning is also meant to maintain a functioning sanitation system.