To the garbage-man here is my ode:
Mountains of that waste you load
Purity's all owed to you
Out early 'fore the morning dew
To the mortician I must say:
I hope I do not pass today
But if I do, I should be proud
to have you there to cast my shroud
To the cleaner debt is due:
Every space is clean and new
Plague fears even your approach
ward off danger with soapy moat
To the chimney-sweep,
and to the whore,
to leftovers
and the impure:
We cannot just praise what is pure
life isn't always so secure
Invite her to your low high-tea
Goddess impure Matangi
Leftovers she may well eat
Walk over ashes in bare feet
in the forest, with nature sits
as dirty as she sees fit
Sans unclean, there is no pure
for who removes the dirt, that chore
for all those who outcasts be
give thy praise to Matangi