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Dave BontaCheerful

I was the same plain man with a king’s head

ordinary as meat at a cook’s house

but my lady would not suffer me to go into the garden

in her hand one orange for my feast

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 12 January 1662/63.

Dave Bonta

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