Sniper’s dream

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I dream that I am awake but we are in our graves

I cannot raise my heart it being the heaviest thing I have

and I wonder at the gun a dark little god

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 15 August 1665.

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