Expat

Dave BontaCheerful

weary as a clock I neglect keeping clean

a louse vexed the ex and me well pleased

I draw a rose drink a glass of bad cider

and go to France to write letters home

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 2 May 1663.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Cheerful
Topics:: home, rose, letter, france

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The speaker of "Expat" is worn out and a little scruffy, and doesn't much mind. The opening image, "weary as a clock," suggests someone who has been ticking along too long, and the admission that they neglect keeping clean sets up a loose, careless mood.

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