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I consider the rosebush cruel and the rose frightening as a ship in the Navy. I am ashamed of the timber in a book. I think up a God and it makes my head into a well of ice.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 31 July 1662.

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