Eviction notice

candle on a winter night like a dead letter

I have nothing to say to it whatever it must eat

the poor can give no account of their own

cut out of the ground only the city will get to be a place

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 3 December 1667.

Dave Bonta

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