Down and out
I am out of love but only ours which makes the morning a noon
and I am out of doors and poor but will shut my mind
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 11 June 1665.
Dave Bonta
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I am out of love but only ours which makes the morning a noon
and I am out of doors and poor but will shut my mind
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 11 June 1665.
The speaker has come to the end of a relationship, and the poem is careful about what exactly has run out. "I am out of love / but only ours": the feeling that has gone is the shared one, not love in general. That small correction makes the loss sound precise and a little rueful.
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