Amputee

high wind the sick man waked and gargled his leg cut off

he will not know how to talk ships coming into the river like galleries for loss

how they have carried at so large a bargain all things

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 19 October 1663.

Dave Bonta

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