But you do not heed it,

Your fingers pick at the lichens

On the stone edge of the basin,

And your eyes follow the tall clouds

As they sail over the ilex trees.

Ely Cathedral

Anaemic women, stupidly dressed and shod

In squeaky shoes, thump down the nave to laud an expurgated God.

Bunches of lights reflect upon the pavement where

The twenty benches stop, and through the close, smelled-over air