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fire touching all I had my melancholy art my home till death

all that was accidental but in the narrative I say we might have done more we might have spooned

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 3 August 1666.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Sad
Topics:: death, art, fire, home

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The speaker has lost everything in a fire: possessions, creative work ("my melancholy art"), and the home they expected to live in until they died. The opening lines are plain and stripped down, as if the speaker is listing what's left after the loss, or what's gone.

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