Inheritance

Dave BontaContemplative

Velvet land, given to make money: the hole bad usage made of it, the well, the firkin. I take half for a bridge to elsewhere, water to comb my head in the kitchen.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 14 August 1660.

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Contemplative
Topics:
water, bridge, land, inheritance

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