Feast day
I eat a horse making it all into one sandwich
a man can pepper every love and nutmeg whole rooms full of despair
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 16 November 1665.
Dave Bonta
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I eat a horse making it all into one sandwich
a man can pepper every love and nutmeg whole rooms full of despair
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 16 November 1665.
A speaker sits down to an absurdly huge meal: a whole horse, squeezed into a single sandwich. It's funny and a little grotesque, and the title, "Feast day," makes it sound like a celebration, though the greed on show feels closer to hunger that can't be satisfied.
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