Fire
the office where we all grew old on fire at last
Erasure haiku derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 26 January 1663/64.
Dave Bonta
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the office where we all grew old on fire at last
Erasure haiku derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 26 January 1663/64.
In just three short lines, this haiku-like poem pictures an office going up in flames. The speaker says "we all grew old" there, so the place is less a building than a shared life: years of routine, colleagues aging side by side, days that blurred together. Then comes the sudden turn.
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