A penny saved

Dave BontaSad

a penny signifies the world we would not miss

a sorry playhouse home having so little

that emptiness is a seeming great sea

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 3 April 1668

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Sad
Topics:
home, sea, emptiness, penny

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