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we might have grown white and thin as rope

over and over the ground and had other bodies

a secret to be hid but not under the house

not in the light of a would-be moon

ships of ice guns without bullet to grieve

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 12 July 1663.

Dave Bonta

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