Slave to fashion

this cruel discontent we take to be a good servant

forced for the sake of wardrobe and fashion to put on other things

getting my war paint and the arch book of dances

the play of bans like news made up well

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 22 November 1662.

Dave Bonta

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