Conquistador

we sieve all the earth just for diamonds

parts of the world dirt poor for gold

I thought myself safe before the music played

as if we might eat one another and live

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 11 October 1667.

Dave Bonta

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