Ceci n'est pas une pipe

This is an ex-pipe, on the beach, anchor for seaweed, bed for barnacles, home for crabs. It had a life once, carrying every household's waste to the sea. Untreated of course.

Those days are gone. Our sewage is properly processed and the sea is clean now. But the ex-pipe dreams of past glory.

For the 1929 Magritte original, you'll have to go to LA.