Down payment
the money I was promised is some dark discharge in a sack o my thorn who told me to believe in tomorrow
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 5 January 1660.
Dave Bonta
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the money I was promised is some dark discharge in a sack o my thorn who told me to believe in tomorrow
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 5 January 1660.
The speaker was promised money, and what arrives instead feels like something ugly: a "dark discharge" in a sack. The word "discharge" suggests waste or bodily fluid, so the payment, supposed to be a hopeful first step, has turned into something dirty and repellent.
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