The last shall be first

Dave BontaContemplative

suppose one evening the world ends

like a sweet which I now possess

from the backwardness of I know not what god

as far as my eyes will give me leave

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 31 December 1668.

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