Ingrained
morning sex
afternoon accounts
evening cross
too at home to walk
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 26 June 1668
Dave Bonta
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morning sex
afternoon accounts
evening cross
too at home to walk
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 26 June 1668
Dave Bonta's poem sketches a single day in eight short lines, and the whole thing feels like a shrug. Each part of the day gets one word for what happens in it: sex in the morning, accounts in the afternoon, being cross in the evening.
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