Notes for a postmodern sea shanty

Dave BontaCheerful

the sea was a great horror though of the same mind as any to be altered

it did not know how to retire and live a private life ready for the evening

it matters that the sea delivered the best-spoken people for a song

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 31 August 1667.

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