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in water I hear the voices of eunuchs

can the ordinary be foreign as the death of a cloud

of whom there is nothing but a nickname

and the field like a table in a secret text

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 7 April 1667.

Dave Bonta

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