Owner
I am ashamed to possess so much I judge to be ash
but am sorry to see no more of it
like the sport I know as hurt
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 19 October 1664.
Dave Bonta
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I am ashamed to possess so much I judge to be ash
but am sorry to see no more of it
like the sport I know as hurt
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 19 October 1664.
The speaker feels caught between two uncomfortable feelings about owning things. At first there's shame: they have too much, and they judge most of it to be worthless, mere "ash." The word suggests something burned out and left over, stuff that has lost its value but still sits in their hands.
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