Morning news
all the morning all the tired dead make me eat one more fear
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 24 May 1664.
Dave Bonta
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all the morning all the tired dead make me eat one more fear
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 24 May 1664.
In just three short lines, Dave Bonta captures the heavy feeling of reading or watching the morning news. The poem suggests a speaker who wakes up and is immediately met with reports of loss and death. The phrase "all the tired dead" is striking.
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