Torn

Dave BontaAnxious

From wife to mistress I live on wit, gaudy but poor. Intending to see my wife, I was not I but a moth to the sun: I burn, taking my pleasure in the morning pain.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 8 August 1660.

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