Leak
information worth a lie that great juggling of the ages give it away as testimony to sin as bad meat
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 23 July 1663.
Dave Bonta
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information worth a lie that great juggling of the ages give it away as testimony to sin as bad meat
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 23 July 1663.
Dave Bonta's "Leak" is only five lines long, but it packs in a sharp view of how information behaves. The opening line says that information is "worth a lie," which suggests that truth is valuable enough that people will bend it, hide it, or trade it.
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