Hanging in there
I sing to the house all alone
I cannot bear the news these days
I walk in the garden till my eyes grow over
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 19 August 1667.
Dave Bonta
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I sing to the house all alone
I cannot bear the news these days
I walk in the garden till my eyes grow over
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 19 August 1667.
A person is shut in with their own company and a world they can hardly stand to hear about. The speaker sings to the house, which is a quietly sad image: there is no audience but the walls, and "all alone" sits on its own line to stress it.
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