Gravity Fed
Sewers possess a beauty all their own
belching gas, you can hear them hiss and groan.
A maze that stretches for hundreds of miles:
they remove our stench and leave us with smiles.
Such an efficient waste removal tube:
if you don’t admire their worth, you're a rube.
They're the bowels of a modern city:
not to acknowledge them is a pity.
Interconnected pipes flush out each house
and provide homes for a rat, or a mouse.
A marvel of septic engineering:
they spread good health without interfering.
Thanks to manholes and ubiquitous drains,
our paved streets are not flooded when it rains.
Sewer systems are an essential tool
to remove liquid waste and smelly stool.
Try to imagine life without this web
of underground rivers that flow and ebb.
They outpace a highly prized thoroughbred
and the trick is, they're gravity fed.
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