Alone
All alone with my wife, with my lute, with great pleasure, with great content.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 28 December 1660.
Dave Bonta
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All alone with my wife, with my lute, with great pleasure, with great content.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 28 December 1660.
Dave Bonta's "Alone" is about a quiet, complete happiness. The speaker is alone, but not lonely. The poem makes this clear right away by building a small circle of company around that word: a wife, a lute, and the feelings of pleasure and contentment that come with them.
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