Misconstrued

ay rose a poor music

calling us by wrong names

we saw ourselves reflecting in rust

we who hear ill news and find some gizzard

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 17 June 1668 (Pepys’ notes for an unfinished entry)

Dave Bonta

Learn by heart: tap a gap

we who hear ill

and find some

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