Punk rock
a rough draft of the news to play on guitar
soul like a rabble of killed children
that heard the world in last night’s rain
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 6 April 1668
Dave Bonta
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a rough draft of the news to play on guitar
soul like a rabble of killed children
that heard the world in last night’s rain
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 6 April 1668
Dave Bonta's short poem defines punk rock in three quick, unsettling images. First, it is "a rough draft of the news / to play on guitar": music that takes the day's headlines and turns them into something loud and unpolished, before anyone has had time to smooth them over.
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