Convention

Dave BontaAnxious

to see how everybody turns like the green blind corn

while we clamber among the trees

losing ourselves in a small room all bewildered

seeing how they are there without knowing almost

what to do but have the outside killed

and ready up beds in the same room

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 26 July 1663.

Dave Bonta

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