Streets paved in gold

Dave BontaAngry

sober graves grow up into desires to look still to leave a great family among the wrong names

the riven street is rich in other men’s gold

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 23 November 1662.

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Angry
Topics:
wealth, grave, gold, street

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