Sunset
After dinner to my papers and Tangier accounts again till supper, and after supper again to them, but by my mixing them, I know not how, my private and publique accounts, it makes me mad to see how hard it is to bring them to be understood, and my head is confounded, that though I did sweare to sit up till one o’clock upon them, yet, I fear, it will be to no purpose, for I cannot understand what I do or have been doing of them to-day.
sun settling on the sea like a public head
I cannot understand what I have been today
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 25 March 1666.