Reinvention
who do I hate who do I grow into
like corn in the sun I make canticles
and that must be the arson of the self
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 18 July 1668
Dave Bonta
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who do I hate who do I grow into
like corn in the sun I make canticles
and that must be the arson of the self
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 18 July 1668
Dave Bonta's "Reinvention" is a short burst of self-questioning. The speaker opens with two blunt questions: who do I hate, and who do I grow into? Putting them side by side suggests the two might be linked, that hating some version of yourself is part of how you change.
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