Plumbing Poem, The Last Sewer I Ever Unstopped

It was a house in Fort Collins, Colorado…a young 

couple lived there…the sewer went out the back,

the main in an alley about 150 feet back…close to

the limit of my machine. I got it unstopped. When I

pulled the cable out, it was infested with condoms 

and cotex. Philip Glass was a plumber before he

became a musician…a friend of mine was his

apprentice for a while. He told me that Philip Glass 

never wanted anyone to ever know he had been a 

plumber.