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having lain long in bed my sorrow is a stone in the book of prodigies ingeniously writ by water in a storm of hail
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 1 June 1664.
Dave Bonta
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having lain long in bed my sorrow is a stone in the book of prodigies ingeniously writ by water in a storm of hail
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 1 June 1664.
The speaker has been lying in bed for a long time, and the poem suggests a heavy, withdrawn kind of sadness. Grief here stops being a feeling and becomes an object: a stone. It is solid, cold, and hard to move, which fits the sense of someone who can't get up.
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