A Drinking Reed

Dave BontaContemplative

I fetch a friend to send to sea and see a reed reckoning the profits of drink. How much to expect of vice? I found all my desire quite spoiled by reason.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 20 August 1660.

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