Douglas Allen Rhodes

Sewer for the world's ideas
Sewer for her discarded children
Sewer for a hundred nations' afterbirths
Sewer for old feuds and new hatreds
Sewer for the remnants of gods and devils
Sewer for religion's excess
Sewer for mankind's debaucheries
Sewer for his deviance
Sewer for the defecations of tyrants and conquerors
Sewer for philosophies writ on dead men's skin
Sewer for the vomit of all the Earth's despoilers
Sewer for the syphilitic puss of all her whores
Sewer for the wasted seed of all her cities' founders

Sewer for the world's ideas

She smiles her toothy grin,
--feeding on their droppings.
She smiles her toothy grin,
--gorging herself on excess.
She smiles her toothy grin,
--growing fat and strong
--on disease and death.
She smiles her toothy grin,
--and calls for more.