Midnight rider

Dave BontaAnxious

Twelve o’clock, and I go hunting with a tin box to carry spice to the dead, which trouble me; get nothing and see little— like a history of twelve at night.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 7 December 1660.

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Twelve o’clock, and I go
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