Tar man

Dave BontaContemplative

Among the tar-men I instruct myself in the nature of tar: a great batter, boiled and simple like a fool. The night took a few turns in my coat. I found the pageant strange.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 14 July 1662.

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