Rough sleepers

the lament of men that lie in the streets some cursing some praying

hot words locked up the key is kindness

but close by a corpse I am come almost to think nothing of it

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 7 October 1665.

Dave Bonta

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