Old bore

a dull lecturer am I a better captain

having lost the ship having ended in a sad home

evening like a great wound I am not able to miss

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 19 January 1668.

Dave Bonta

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having lost the
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