Piety
church when all is one: a city of lust
the plot of yesterday’s play is exactly the same
to pen then to read and then to bed
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 21 June 1668
Dave Bonta
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church when all is one: a city of lust
the plot of yesterday’s play is exactly the same
to pen then to read and then to bed
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 21 June 1668
The poem is short and a little odd, and it seems to say that holiness and desire aren't as far apart as we pretend. In the first lines, "church when all is one" turns into "a city of lust." The word "piety" in the title suggests devotion, yet the poem pairs it with something far more earthly.
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