Mr. Thin

Dave BontaDreamy

my tailor will have a dress on I heard him singing

Mr. Thin a pretty man in his closet

weary of meeting nobody there but a moth

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 27 September 1666.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Dreamy
Topics:: loneliness, moth, dress, closet

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The speaker overhears their tailor singing and guesses, with a mix of amusement and tenderness, that he is trying on a dress. The poem never says this outright. It gives us a quick, almost gossiping glimpse of a private moment: a man alone in his closet, enjoying himself.

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