Benighted

night pretty as a burnt church beyond all oratory preaches like Ecclesiastes

the days of darkness shall be many all that cometh is vanity

and I take water and a bitter little sin to bed

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 20 January 1667.

Dave Bonta

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