Disastrous

people sit in the street begging for dinner money

I used to crave the stir of a great storm

now I hear the way the dead fear losing our ‘hood

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 14 November 1665.

Dave Bonta

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