Lodging

I leave my key secure in the lock

and my hired horse out in the field

day and night come anew to sing

oh friend stay and lodge as soon as the sand

which I carry to bed in one tear

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 7 October 1667.

Dave Bonta

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