Insomniac
morning a too-late prologue to night my eyes making me sad
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 1 August 1668
Dave Bonta
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morning a too-late prologue to night my eyes making me sad
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 1 August 1668
Dave Bonta's "Insomniac" is only two lines long, but it captures the exhausted feeling of a person who hasn't slept. The speaker describes morning as "a too-late prologue to night." That's a strange, backwards idea.
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