Industrial revolution

I spoke with coffee like a dark ear of night

and went out into the leaden street

men carried the weight of the fields yesterday today and tomorrow through the city

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 25 August 1663, written while listening to Godflesh’s classic album Streetcleaner.

Dave Bonta

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