above all music is a voice in my head
that said to go under like light into a hole
or a heart into a book
or enemies to sleep
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 17 November 1665.
Dave Bonta's short poem begins with a bold claim: a voice inside the speaker's head matters more than music. That voice gives an instruction, and the poem's title points to it. The instruction is to "go under," and the poem answers by piling up images of what going under might look like.
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