Informer
I meet on a ledge with two men hanged today. We walk up and down.
The commissioners pay me to be an informer on the dead
with my theater of clerks, two mousetraps and a rank-rot mouth.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 19 January 1660/61.
Dave Bonta
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