Death of the amateur

Dave BontaContemplative

I walk the streets with nothing to do but think outside

I weather myself so sleepy I cannot hold open my eyes

and must be buried in some profession

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 19 January 1665.

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