Bilateral
in health in fever my mouth full of wants
one body two gods
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 19 July 1666.
Dave Bonta
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in health in fever my mouth full of wants
one body two gods
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 19 July 1666.
Bonta's poem is only a few lines long, but it packs in a sense of restless hunger. The speaker describes two states, "in health" and "in fever," and says that in both of them their "mouth" is "full / of wants." Whether the body is well or sick, the craving doesn't stop.
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