Library

Dave BontaAngry

books of tickets for pain and trouble

books of acceptable answers like land sold for nothing

but how to communicate excommunication to the choir

I do not know what to bind in my books of dirt

Erasure poems derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 31 January 1668.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Angry
Topics:: pain, book, dirt, choir

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Bonta's poem turns a library into something strange and unsettling. Instead of knowledge or refuge, its books are "tickets / for pain and trouble," as if reading were a purchase that admits you to suffering.

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