The big question

the child’s question was very angry

and began to talk openly of my guts a cunning blubber

who let this complaint and I be friends wakened by extraordinary weather

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 12 June 1664.

Dave Bonta

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and began to talk of my guts
who let this and I be friends
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