Gentrified

in as mourning a dress as a clock or an auditor

we mourn the city and we mourn the street

the change of a great place into money

some strange fit of tooth on tooth

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 23 December 1663.

Dave Bonta

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