The birth of tragedy

We change our days to night and survey the alterations: war into opera, streets into dangerous doors and blown sand into the word Love, for dancing and singing would spoil the music.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 18 February 1661/62.

Dave Bonta

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