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o morning change me with my father’s house come home to a tent
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 22 December 1668.
Dave Bonta
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o morning change me with my father’s house come home to a tent
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 22 December 1668.
Over just a few short lines, the speaker addresses the morning directly and asks it for a change. The wish is odd and tender: to be changed "with my father's house," as if the speaker and the house might be transformed together, then "come home / to a tent."
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