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The morning sermon a crow calling all the way home
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 21 October 1660.
Dave Bonta
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The morning sermon a crow calling all the way home
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 21 October 1660.
Three short lines, and the whole poem turns on one small swap. Church is usually where a sermon happens, but here the "morning sermon" seems to be a crow calling, and it keeps going "all the way home." The poem never says the speaker is bored by the human sermon or moved by the bird's call.
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