Partisan
I am at all times ready to believe words plainly expressed
ready to die and be buried in the dark without a hat
I am better than that struck-off hat
or this head next to it served up on a stick
to shout about the infinite a beast not to be understood
it being impossible to know almost any small plain thing
and so certain as a drunk for half an hour I grieve at the just clamors of the poor
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 19 December 1666.