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Dave BontaContemplative

The contrivance of the door—square and blind—and behind the door the air of office or lodgings take a view of desire and turn it into order, which is so bitter a house.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 30 May 1661.

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