Consumer report
nothing to do so nothing will do
I cease to wonder
the evening news comes with its ash
visions on ship that sink on shore
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 9 July 1667.
Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
nothing to do so nothing will do
I cease to wonder
the evening news comes with its ash
visions on ship that sink on shore
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 9 July 1667.
The speaker is stuck in a flat, empty evening. "Nothing to do / so nothing will do" plays on the word "nothing": there is no activity to fill the time, and nothing on offer would satisfy anyway.
Read the full summary