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Dave BontaCheerful

We come close to the land, eat nothing but peas and pork and boiled beef, eat with great love, shit with all imaginable respect the land infinite place rich world. I see a man almost drowned in joy give honor to an oak with a gilded crown.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 25 May 1660.

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