In bad faith

we are obliged to answer a troll told how winter did not prove so bad as reported

or that he had no opportunity of speaking his mind

till 12 o’clock at night making an end of right and wrong out of love for the gallows

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 14 November 1663.

Dave Bonta

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