Open road

the road is a thing I seldom sit on

where I hear the difference between fleet and gone

weary of staying to pay for air

how little I would keep like an office at night

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 4 September 1662.

Dave Bonta

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