Youth revisited

We were a hit we were pretty only hands were handsome as we

and we were young there at night—

easily stirred and as green as boats.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 21 August 1662.

Dave Bonta

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We were a hit we were
only hands were as we
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