Law and order
order that dull end of the world is said to die with the cleanest hands unlike the law
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 19 May 1667.
Dave Bonta
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order that dull end of the world is said to die with the cleanest hands unlike the law
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 19 May 1667.
Dave Bonta's short poem plays on the familiar phrase "law and order" by pulling its two halves apart. Order comes first, alone on its line, and it gets a blunt, unflattering description: "that dull end / of the world." Instead of something comforting, order sounds like a kind of stillness or…
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