Early days

I drank to her sun and to her body of water

me in my dirt and my rot my wandering and my idleness

not yet declared by the doctors to be past recovery

it was little yet and bad to make a show about the illness

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 20 March 1667.

Dave Bonta

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