Elf
All day at my work, all Christmas day in the mall.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 20 December 1660.
Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
All day at my work, all Christmas day in the mall.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 20 December 1660.
Dave Bonta's "Elf" is only three short lines, but it packs in a whole mood. The speaker is someone working a seasonal job in a mall, most likely dressed as one of Santa's helpers, though the poem never says so outright. That is an inference from the title.
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