Shooter
left my wife and off to war
I shall return with visions that will nest in the night
calling me up from a horrible dark bed
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 2 November 1665.
Dave Bonta
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left my wife and off to war
I shall return with visions that will nest in the night
calling me up from a horrible dark bed
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 2 November 1665.
A soldier speaks in the moment of leaving. He has left his wife and is heading off to war, and he says it plainly, almost in shorthand, as if he can't afford to linger on the goodbye. The title, "Shooter," suggests he is the one who will do the killing, which makes what follows more unsettling.
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