Inner city

in the city is a city missing bread for the swan on the water

but the other made of fear begins to decay like mad

the street cursing in 42 voices that money is not to eat

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 13 June 1663.

Dave Bonta

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