Bath Salts

[Achebe]

I had just drawn a bubble bath
when my pen was stolen......I read it as 'pen was swollen'. There are a few phallic references through the poem - "cock"sure, tool, the "pen" that you grope for. Not to mention that a duck stealing a pen from your bathroom or anywhere in your house is not easy to visualise, so the double entendre suggests itself strongly. 
by a cocksure mallard.

He fled to a pond
with my tool in his beak,
and a quack threw some crumbs
and he opened his cheek.

I stripped to my briefs and leapt in the muck,
hoping to leave with my tool
and the duck.

He flew off again,
and I groped for my pen,
but all I could feel
was fish guck. ...oddly enough, I find 'fish guck' a satisfying rhyme to 'duck'

I straggled back home
and drew up a bath,
while planning a meal
of duck confit hash. ...the ending should be wittier