Jack the Ripper:

honour no one with a glance, overflowing
with the living & the dead, the bridge,
the river, tier upon tier raised on the stench
of disease in the catacombs, vaults & sewers,
the living follow the dead through a tunnel
into exodus & only one man saw in the hour
the sunken city resuscitated into monstrous
metropolis, its veins & arches an underworld
network, Teiresias reborn as a vampire
in a population, an epidemic of troglodytes,
city over the mountains, London's falling
Towers of Babylon, broken images & babble.
Gift of Tongues