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Dave BontaAngry

all the morning will not be money

or rest or every strange desire I have

consequences follow us home with our money

where I own people in the company of ice

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 21 June 1665.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Angry
Topics:: ice, home, desire, money

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The poem begins by saying that a morning can't be reduced to money, or to rest, or even to the strange desires the speaker carries. Something about a morning slips past every attempt to measure or spend it.

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