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Dave BontaRomantic

I made a stick sweetheart but unwilling to keep her I sent her away to the cranes in the fields

but I did make her think of making herself happy with her strange fellow cranes in the dirt and the marl

ingenious treasurers of time and folly where one is free there is great plenty

I want her still took her a glass of pure water and hewed her a thin ice bed

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 27 January 1665.

Dave Bonta

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