Cathedrals of Sewage

Abbey Mills and Crossness Pumping Stations, London

of course / the cesspools weren’t ideal but
they were all emptied by the nightmen and
their contents sold upstream / waste is not waste

which quickens what it stagnant finds / and if
we are to ride this boom and nourish all
these fucking folk [none should be surplus here]

the fields must multiply in step / we must
play nightmen to the Christforsaken river
[and He was not just clean besides / was not

just set aside from all the stink / besides
Pilate washed] / and never hope to rise
above this station / only to permit

the marriage of the true eject / restore
the earth to Adam / say this is your shit