Bit part

Dave BontaContemplative

the business of the self is thin stuff

I spend a little time in some little part

letting fall now and then some little violence

on some other whom I love as morning bacon

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 19 June 1666.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Contemplative
Topics:: self, violence, bacon

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The speaker looks at their own life and finds it slight. The "business of the self" sounds important, but the poem calls it "thin stuff," and the title, "Bit part," pushes the same idea: we are minor actors in a larger play, spending a little time in some little part.

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