Broke

Dave BontaAnxious

nights without money I carry a purse full of impossible things

undressing myself in the dark I lie like a Dutch oven in the hands of rust

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 30 June 1666.

Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
Mood:
Anxious
Topics:
money, rust, oven, purse

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