Crowd control

in days of sickness a great crowd comes

to the wrong world from pain

comes alone like some hoped-for good luck

and I am silent as the moonlight entering my bed

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 13 December 1667.

Dave Bonta

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