Following orders

the pen sat hiring ships to go to war in a pretty hand

and is now very discrete more than me

I am among other things a man that history missed

my victory over doubt was killed and taken

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 19 August 1664.

Dave Bonta

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