A sewage worker was born again

finding Jesus down the drain

a moment of light and truth of sorts

where the underworld contorts.

 

Breathing methane was the cause

yet still an event to give us pause

he underwent a strange conversion

after seeing the browning version.

 

As above so below

where even common faecal flow

can bring a man to God it seems

who specializes in such extremes.

 

(The Browning Version:  a play by Terence Rattigan

unconnected with the poem except by rhyming allusion)