Recipe for survival

Dave BontaAngry

sit till Christ comes

howl till the moon is new

weather another lost hope and rage

prophesying destruction to the nation

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 2 December 1666.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Angry
Topics:: moon, nation, destruction

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The title promises a recipe, and the poem delivers one, but the ingredients are strange: sit, howl, endure, prophesy. Nothing here is practical advice. Instead, survival looks like stubborn waiting and loud, unashamed grief.

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