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out on the river someone talking
says the fittest of any might be as likely to die
at the end of our lane the moon
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 29 April 1667.
Dave Bonta
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out on the river someone talking
says the fittest of any might be as likely to die
at the end of our lane the moon
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 29 April 1667.
The poem starts with an overheard voice drifting across a river, a stranger's remark we only get secondhand. The speaker doesn't tell us who is talking or why.
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