Book of Martyrs

A great evil I saw: a book comes to give stairs to people, but they hold up their heads to be kissed, not to kiss. And so bonfires desire the book and read it with pleasure to that long night, the city.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 2 November 1660.

Dave Bonta

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