Displacement
office whispering their lies to the ground after work
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 12 September 1668
Dave Bonta
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office whispering their lies to the ground after work
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 12 September 1668
Three short lines, and a lot is left unsaid. The poem seems to follow the end of a workday, when "office" gives way to "after work." The strange middle line, "whispering their lies to the ground," is where everything happens. The poem never says who is whispering, so the subject floats.
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