Bender

I would cure myself if I could face my thorn

a captain drunk in his cabin over the loss of a ship

a captain on shore in the woods would not sing

confined to land what other night comes to be broken open

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 19 March 1669.

Dave Bonta

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