Hapless

how to mourn people who have never been happy

unhappiness falling like sleep over this wild wonder of a body that nobody prizes

true as water may happen to be held in flux

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 8 December 1667.

Dave Bonta

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