Hauntology of the UK

The Demolition of Old London Bridge, 1832 by J.W.S. Credit: Guildhall Gallery, London.

They sold the rain first.

Not the drops themselves, but the right

to name what falls on soil older than prayer.

Now the puddles wear us,

and the Thames coughs up futures traded at dawn

in London, while bridges sag

with the weight of unkept vows.