The day the music died

My song died, a note gone to ash. My flageolette got an ague. My shot harp sat in a bed of nails.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 30 January 1659/60.

Dave Bonta

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a note to ash.
My got an ague.
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