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drinking I almost kill myself my promised joy buried like a match in the night
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 9 July 1665.
Dave Bonta
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drinking I almost kill myself my promised joy buried like a match in the night
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 9 July 1665.
Four short lines, and a lot of darkness packed into them. The speaker says that while drinking, they almost kill themselves. The wording is blunt and offered without explanation, which makes it feel raw, as if the admission slipped out.
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