Roast
busy all day on dinner my home is our ham
the weather frosty and the house so poor an oven
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 25 November 1665.
Dave Bonta
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busy all day on dinner my home is our ham
the weather frosty and the house so poor an oven
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 25 November 1665.
The speaker has spent the whole day cooking dinner, and the poem is built around a small, striking idea: "my home is our ham." The house and the roast become one thing.
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