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Dave BontaSad

the lying fire burning all night pretending to scour

but having nothing to come home to

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 2 March 1665.

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Sad
Topics:
night, fire, home

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