Sad times

I wake by 4:00 o’clock to any day but my own

here a forest here a clearing here a dead body and his imp of a fly

it is midsummer in the country of grief nothing is done but trade

dinner for dinner a fancy tune for a glass

and sorry for however present a loss

I hear that Parliament is against the scandal of nature

which if too much provoked shall go to bed

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 27 May 1663.

Dave Bonta

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