Self-preservation

Dave BontaContemplative

My accounts own me all afternoon and lie at night like amber keeping the heart.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 1 October 1662.

Dave Bonta

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My own me
and lie at
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