Partisan
In the war of good and evil I pick one side: the pageants, the show. Poor thought is a locked door, a quiet morning.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 29 October 1660.
Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
In the war of good and evil I pick one side: the pageants, the show. Poor thought is a locked door, a quiet morning.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 29 October 1660.
The poem opens like a grand declaration. The speaker says they are taking sides in the war of good and evil, but the side they pick is a surprise. It isn't good or evil at all. It's "the pageants, the show": spectacle, display, the colorful noise of the world.
Read the full summary