Old, blue

old and in pain I would bring my heart

ugly as the mother of a wound to you

like the sea alone with a captain in the middle of a sound sleep

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 20 June 1664.

Dave Bonta

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