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.

Dave Bonta

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