Rimbaud, 1880

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I have borrowed some quiet— the first in my life—and am resolved to go. I settle my accounts with myself and fear in hand, furnish my mind with a tent.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 1 March 1661/62, in response to an article from the New York Times.

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