Gambler
In and in, paying and buying, I go. Chance is a pretty church— an encyclopedia, which cost me much pain.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 27 October 1660.
Dave Bonta
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In and in, paying and buying, I go. Chance is a pretty church— an encyclopedia, which cost me much pain.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 27 October 1660.
In just a few short lines, the speaker describes the pull of gambling as a kind of downward spiral. "In and in" suggests going deeper and deeper, while "paying and buying" makes the whole thing sound like a transaction that never stops.
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