Vivisectioned

I wrap up in paper my rotten heart

gone quiet like another ear

I shall be out of my mind all morning

free of sleep my member falling out

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 14 November 1668.

Dave Bonta

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