Tastes Like Chicken

Dave BontaCheerful
Homage to Novica Tadić

A great hen, very angry, began to pull down the dove and the lark, a pretty dish.

The mouth dropped thirty guns in a high debate with the sea.

It blew hard. The great fowl’s mother was put to bed.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 11 May 1660.

Dave Bonta

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