Where all the flowers have gone

the ought-to-have-been couple raw and pretty to see together gain a year’s distance

he hit her that former wit now well married to a war

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 2 May 1665.

Dave Bonta

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