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Dave BontaContemplative

who would not be kissed by eunuchs with women’s voices

that which is known and understood will never be as pleasing

and the tongue is more judicious than that anagram of dog

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 16 February 1667.

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