Existential

Dave BontaContemplative

dressing myself I observe the corn and lumber of the body

going over the old who am I must mouth surrender to mouth

on a hunt for the right world writing new answers to very little

a finished life is I believe no great good after my father’s death

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 16 September 1668

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