Cold hearted
I am husband to a boat and I am the ice I change like the afternoon putting things in order in my castle on Mars
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 21 December 1666.
Dave Bonta
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I am husband to a boat and I am the ice I change like the afternoon putting things in order in my castle on Mars
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 21 December 1666.
The speaker describes himself in strange, dreamlike images, and the title gives the key: he is "cold hearted." He calls himself husband to a boat, a partner that belongs to water and drifts, and then says he is the ice, the thing that can freeze a boat in place.
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