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At the last house I saw the duke go from his audience, his coach all velvet.
Gold pages in other books I read— nothing but talk.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 26 October 1660.
Dave Bonta
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At the last house I saw the duke go from his audience, his coach all velvet.
Gold pages in other books I read— nothing but talk.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 26 October 1660.
The speaker describes a small, ordinary moment: standing at the last house, watching a duke leave an audience in a coach lined with velvet. It's a brief glimpse of real wealth and rank, seen in person rather than imagined.
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