Timekeeper
weary clock within me enough go away
where I was promised school they taught me sleep
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 7 January 1668.
Dave Bonta
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weary clock within me enough go away
where I was promised school they taught me sleep
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 7 January 1668.
The speaker is worn out by the "clock within me," an inner sense of time that ticks on whether they want it to or not. The short, blunt lines "enough / go away" sound like someone who has run out of patience and simply wants quiet. It reads almost like a plea to their own body or mind.
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