Essential worker

Dave BontaAnxious

dressing in my best instructions

to work at the world’s end

a thin nightcoat by day and my waistcoat at night

hot so hot out here in my hands

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 9 May 1669.

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