Poems of the Week

Form Follows Function

by Steven Kent

“Is this the world’s most beautiful sewage treatment plant?”
The Guardian

Cathedrals, castles—works of art, it’s true,
Revealing all the best of man’s ability,
Yet even so, not one recycles poo;
What marriage of aesthetics and utility!
This architect outdid himself, I know—
His lines have such a real, organic flow.