Backward river

years of my life full of horrid memory

taking me back into the river that thin nation all fury and revenge

cruel men never suffer barbarous as the afternoon office

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 23 February 1665.

Dave Bonta

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