Uses
water to make rain broth to drink love to fill up the afternoon sea to be absent
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 16 July 1666.
Dave Bonta
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water to make rain broth to drink love to fill up the afternoon sea to be absent
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 16 July 1666.
The poem is a short list of "uses," and each line gives a thing and its purpose. Water makes rain. Broth is for drinking. Those two feel practical and almost obvious, like entries in a dictionary. Then the list begins to drift.
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