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I labor to think of love and give over thoughts of ash and the void of death

give over thoughts of sex and the door to the shop

the first time I was with her drinking my eyes into soreness at that light

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 9 June 1666.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Romantic
Topics:: death, love, light, ash

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The speaker is making an effort, and the first line admits it: he "labors" to think of love. That word suggests it doesn't come easily. His mind keeps drifting toward darker things, "ash" and "the void of death," and he is trying to set those aside in favor of something warmer.

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