Civilization

the place drawn out of a quiet heavy nothing

like a letter from me to myself each thinking the other a fool

every city is all the cities in the world

their neighbors in the country pay in blood and little supper

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 27 March 1665.

Dave Bonta

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