restate meaning

[ladorada]

There are moments when my (learned) English keeps being stubbornly opaque. I am trying to get the meaning of these lines by poet David Dabydeen:

Heaped up beside you Old Dabydeen
Who on Albion Estate clean dawn
Washed obsessively by the canal bank,
Spread flowers on the snake-infested water,
Fed the gods the food that Chandra cooked,
Bathed his tongue of the creole
Babbled by low-caste infected coolies...

The second and the third line seem to me very confusing. Restatements of the first lines would help.

[boxtops]

Goodness - that is complex - but if you really want to know, you can ask him yourself, his email address is at the bottom, here http://www2.warwick.a...s/ccs/staff/dabydeen/