Self improvement

Dave BontaContemplative

I hew myself raw like a thought in mathematics

finding failures to build upon

green as a burial in the garden

absent as a lost manuscript going to a thief

I am not at all sorry to be asleep

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 29 March 1669.

Dave Bonta

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I hew raw
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