Made

Dave BontaContemplative

Within me, one that had formerly known me— but I know not his name. (I had the wit to deny him.)

We made ourselves by taking away art. Made to confess, I married the company.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 26 January 1660/61.

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that had known me—
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