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Excavating Aldgate Tube Station (1876)

from Black & White & Read All Over by Ian Whiteley

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Excavating Aldgate Tube Station (1876)

Underneath the rat infested streets
dead bodies were piled high, row on row.
Enshrouded in their grimy, night-soiled sheets.
- thrown to the devils down below.

Dead bodies were piled high, row on row.
Plague pits rampant all around Aldgate.
Thrown to the waiting devils down below -
unmarked graves meant no one knew their fate.

Plague pits rampant all around Aldgate -
the grave soil settled harder on the pile.
Unmarked graves meant no one knew their fate,
they were lost and forgotten for a while.

The grave soil settled harder on the pile
Where centuries later heavy machines scour.
They were lost and forgotten for a while,
only remembered in this modern hour.

Where centuries later heavy machines scour,
enshrouded in their grimy night soiled sheets,
only remembered in this modern hour
underneath the rat infested streets.

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from Black & White & Read All Over, released January 1, 2019

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