Inept

oysters defeat me and years inks little hopes any rose without enemies

like instructions for melancholy that make us perfectly happy but whisper some hard word just as we go

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 8 December 1665.

Dave Bonta

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