Public servant

Dave BontaCheerful

I go forth in my coat and sword to drums and other drums, a vulgar audience making ugly faces, not knowing the wine where I kill the clock that talked on about business.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 3 February 1660/61.

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