Muse

Dave BontaRomantic

This morning I was taken with a comely woman: not handsome but a woman of the best language that ever I heard any in my life. I took leave to go to the office and could not return.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 3 August 1660.

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