Yardbirds

in the varnished yard of the prison we bake

offer violence to the lip and the window

tormented by bad clothes walking at night to our cages

birds that are all fat mining for home

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 10 July 1666.

Dave Bonta

Learn by heart: tap a gap

in the yard of the prison

to the lip and the

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