Materialist
I eat snow and count all the ways to get money
I am giving myself wholly up to matter
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 11 December 1662.
Dave Bonta
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I eat snow and count all the ways to get money
I am giving myself wholly up to matter
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 11 December 1662.
In just four lines, the speaker sets two images side by side: eating snow and counting ways to make money. Snow is cold, empty, and free, the kind of thing you eat when you have nothing else. Money is the opposite, something the speaker is anxiously working out how to get.
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