The drunkards’ progress

spent and worn as a bone of loss no fight in their belly as if the wind had beaten them

o the bottle is a pretty woman and accounts for the killing of some and the careening of all to disaster

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 28 October 1666.

Dave Bonta

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