Paleolithic diet
after dinner having had a gory victual
I hope to get thin being full of solution
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 5 July 1664.
Dave Bonta
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after dinner having had a gory victual
I hope to get thin being full of solution
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 5 July 1664.
The speaker has just finished a meal, and the title tells us it belongs to the "Paleolithic diet," the eat-like-a-caveman approach built around meat. The "gory victual" is a bloody, barely tamed piece of food, and the word "victual" is old-fashioned, which adds a comic edge.
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