News junkie
news like a prize hog or someone with my carcass
inform me disorder me
and at night point me to bed
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 22 December 1666.
Dave Bonta
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news like a prize hog or someone with my carcass
inform me disorder me
and at night point me to bed
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 22 December 1666.
The speaker confesses to being hooked on the news, and the poem is blunt about what that feels like. The opening comparison is a strange one: news is like a prize hog, or like "someone with my carcass." Both images treat the speaker's body as something to be fattened, handled, or used.
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