Response
true in my hate
when I answer the expected words to unexpected hands
the eye will have nothing to do with it
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 3 October 1666.
Dave Bonta
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true in my hate
when I answer the expected words to unexpected hands
the eye will have nothing to do with it
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 3 October 1666.
The poem is very short and deliberately cryptic, so it helps to read it as a small scene. The speaker imagines a future moment of answering someone, giving "the expected words" while something unexpected happens: hands arrive that the speaker wasn't prepared for.
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