Fallen
under the world faults busy as lace
I keep drinking afraid to see all the sickness
how is the land not as it appears good
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 7 June 1667.
Dave Bonta
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under the world faults busy as lace
I keep drinking afraid to see all the sickness
how is the land not as it appears good
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 7 June 1667.
The poem sets two layers against each other: a surface that looks fine and a hidden world underneath that may not be. In the first lines, the speaker pictures faults, cracks in the earth, running "busy as lace" below the ground.
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