Grownups

Dave BontaContemplative

no other money no other time to make use of all alone

my wife tells me she thinks she is with child

flinging off my hat I sit with the wind

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 22 September 1664.

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Contemplative
Topics:
wind, child, wife

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