Reality check
up and to the real morning of all the busy ill almost night
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 25 May 1665.
Dave Bonta
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up and to the real morning of all the busy ill almost night
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 25 May 1665.
Dave Bonta's "Reality check" is only three short lines, but it feels like a quick intake of breath. The speaker seems to be moving upward, perhaps rising out of sleep or out of a restless, anxious night, toward what the poem calls "the real morning." That word "real" does a lot of work.
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