GR translation: to take just enough of it away eaxh morning

[Michael Bailey]

I remember parsing this a couple years ago on list.

they're walking to church but there's a panoramic scan over to the coast,
where Wrens are building ships...
nearby is a pipefitter's shed where they're making war materiel

they're using metal collected in "drives" such as discarded toothpaste tubes

this conjures thoughts of those who used the toothpaste

such as children evacuated to the countryside and seeing unaccustomed
shapes of animals out the windows and talking while they brush their
teeth

and adults, smokers, and eaters of gland pies (I think of kidney pies,
because he also mentions "offal") who brush with the mentholated
toothpaste each morning to substitute the fresh menthol taste for that
of the accumulated smoke and organ meat residue