a mole out and back again
with no other company but an ugly wish
hands clean as hats on Sunday
at home with the poor people out
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 22 February 1667.
The poem is a short, sharp look at what it means to be comfortable while others aren't. It opens with a mole, a creature that burrows out and comes back to its hole, and the speaker seems to see themselves in it: someone who ventures into the world and retreats again, with nothing for company but…
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