Wasteland

walking in wounded places the highway I am on

is like a gallery for empty eyes

going into land that nobody should know

somewhere swelling to become somewhore

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 19 May 1669.

Dave Bonta

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