Outcast
cast the word out word like a hat word I eat at night without any company poor word
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 2 July 1665.
Dave Bonta
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cast the word out word like a hat word I eat at night without any company poor word
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 2 July 1665.
Dave Bonta's "Outcast" is built around a strange, tender joke: a word treated as if it were something you could throw away, wear, or swallow. The title is itself the word being addressed, and the speaker begins by commanding it to be cast out, which is exactly what "outcast" already means.
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