Maudlin

an old boat commanded to be burnt am I

the light of it dismembering the ash flying up

as bountiful as I am drunk

and you are kind for being with me

who will have no success at anything wise

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 23 September 1667.

Dave Bonta

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