On Second Thought

Dave BontaCheerful

A man, a man, a man came from London, from London, from London to the arms of a captain, a captain, a captain… and it comes now into my mind to observe that I have been a little too free to make mirth, he being a very sober and an upright man.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 11 April 1660.

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Cheerful
Topics:
london, captain, mirth

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