Halfway house

so tender and melancholy they cry like a child

on meeting with civil discourse at the halfway house

but the poor souls at supper fall out about saying grace

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 4 April 1664.

Dave Bonta

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