Walk

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walk as if it is enough for you to walk as if the devil had commanded do not run but walk like the prophecy of a horse when disaster comes walk

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 20 October 1666.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Inspired
Topics:: horse, devil, disaster

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The poem is one long, unpunctuated command, and it keeps repeating the same word: walk. The speaker tells us to move steadily, not to run, even when something terrible is near. The odd comparisons make this feel urgent.

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