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a wing for the fox to eat how necessary a use
unlike art in a burrow of an office
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 14 October 1666.
Dave Bonta
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a wing for the fox to eat how necessary a use
unlike art in a burrow of an office
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 14 October 1666.
The poem sets two small scenes side by side and lets the reader work out the link. In the first, a wing is left for a fox to eat. The speaker calls this "how necessary a use," which sounds almost like a dry remark about nature: the wing has a clear purpose, feeding a hungry animal.
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