Good-for-nothing

my books fall down as you dance

which tells me the state of my affairs

though I do fear a tall woman without shoes

and alone I cannot believe my new light heart

my mouth like a pot the noise of the wind

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 8 February 1669.

Dave Bonta

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