Healths
in order to prevent surprise we read like fools only here and there a bit
and without moving to give thanks for pain or the power of a rose
preach a sermon full of rope text with one mind and one mouth
give glory to the great variety of creatures that animate dead bodies
ants like little friars where I walk head aching with the healths I was forced to drink
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 15 June 1663.
Dave Bonta
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