Office worker blues

looking over papers my gaze is as lost

as a lost foot on a road like a held tongue

a man can sit so long he is a stranger to the light

show me a broadside ready to burn down Monday

find me an F U C K those four letters born in a whip

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 4 July 1663.

Dave Bonta

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