image: An Iraqi girl collects water in Baghdad June 20, 2005. 14 districts situated on the west of the river Tigris, which divides Baghdad, have no running water after a main supply line was damaged by an explosion yesterday, the U.S. forces said. REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber
Cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, and European Tribune.
image and poem below the fold
Water
by Philip Larkin
If I were called in
To construct a religion
I should make use of water.
Going to church
Would entail a fording
To dry, different clothes;
My litany would employ
Images of sousing,
A furious devout drench,
And I should raise in the east
A glass of water
Where any-angled light
Would congregate endlessly..
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