Trade-offs

in the park they lease new buildings

where the morning grew they do all the hurt they can

the more a man serves the less he finds of joy

like the death of so many things to make me content in my life

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 26 July 1665.

Dave Bonta

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