Golden years
to see things go old makes me fearful of change
I used to be old as a settled business content with any little ore
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 17 September 1664.
Dave Bonta
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to see things go old makes me fearful of change
I used to be old as a settled business content with any little ore
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 17 September 1664.
In just four lines, the speaker admits something a little surprising: watching things grow old makes them afraid of change. We might expect the fear to be of death or decline, but here it is change itself that unsettles them, as if age were a kind of slow, unwelcome movement away from what was…
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