Autopoetics

I suffer auspiciously as a rose from unfinished pain

having made myself captain I know who he is

but you see a man dead of ordinary melancholy

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 26 August 1665.

Dave Bonta

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