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Dave BontaContemplative

The business of the town is going to sea, which it pleased God to lay out in the absence of wine or ships, a lead foot setting forth for France and a mind to stay longer before they go.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 3 June 1661.

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