Gambler
three pieces of gold for the dead
a debt I pay at the gaming house
not in church a foreign money to them
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 27 March 1663.
Dave Bonta
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three pieces of gold for the dead
a debt I pay at the gaming house
not in church a foreign money to them
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 27 March 1663.
A gambler describes an odd way of settling accounts with the dead. Three gold coins are owed to them, and the speaker pays that debt not in a church, where we might expect such an offering, but in a gaming house.
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