Drive

Dave BontaDreamy

the road is godfather to a strange liberty

going without purpose of doing anything just going I broke down

how dogmatic the old grammar of time and ash

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 9 March 1665.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Dreamy
Topics:: liberty, time, road, ash

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Driving, in this short poem, feels like both a release and a kind of surrender. The opening image treats the road as a "godfather," something powerful that grants the speaker "a strange liberty." The word "strange" matters: the freedom isn't simple or joyful.

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