Sweet nothing

Dave BontaContemplative

this morning is a clear ruin a mortal barb

words make anything to raise disquiet

but the word devil that word full of world

is a nothing as sweet as my first little doubt

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 21 May 1663, written while listening to Myrkur’s album M.

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