Memento mori

Dave BontaContemplative

dinner on the boil it is a miracle to me how like a changeling beyond all imitation of a face I am old today

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 28 December 1667.

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
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Contemplative
Topics:
death, age, face, dinner

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