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my gray hair cut — going to sea in the sewers
Erasure haiku derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 22 December 1664.
Dave Bonta
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my gray hair cut — going to sea in the sewers
Erasure haiku derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 22 December 1664.
A haircut is an ordinary, almost forgettable moment, but this tiny poem follows it somewhere unexpected. The speaker's gray hair is cut, falls away, and is swept down a drain. From there, the poem imagines it travelling through the sewers and eventually out to sea.
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