Drinker
I fortify myself against myself
what I fear is thought
I order disorder
o night
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 23 November 1667.
Dave Bonta
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I fortify myself against myself
what I fear is thought
I order disorder
o night
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 23 November 1667.
The speaker of "Drinker" is someone who drinks to escape their own head. The first line sets up a strange split: "I fortify myself against myself." Fortifying is what you do to a castle before an attack, so the enemy here is the speaker's own self, and the drink is the wall they build.
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