Absent

what manner of love is this that we should call and call but not be there

where a drum came beating a single stroke out of the living

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 5 February 1659/60. (See the original erasure.)

Dave Bonta

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that we call and call
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