Cockaigne
find me a place just wide enough for rocks find me a land of fire but no flag
a blockhead land in which a beggar must have the greatest hands
a world in which money is counterfeit nonsense like a king’s wind discernable to the eye
where God will grow in whatever body poor lord of silence
but I overcome with seasickness shut my eyes to the moon and his green and horrible horses
hold me not knowing who as if I had been awake
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 18 September 1665.
Dave Bonta
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