News junkie
the morning paper bled to tell me no wonders
dull and melancholy god of the house
our peace and unquiet become burdens
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 8 November 1668.
Dave Bonta
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the morning paper bled to tell me no wonders
dull and melancholy god of the house
our peace and unquiet become burdens
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 8 November 1668.
Dave Bonta's "News junkie" is a short, bleak look at what daily news does to a household. The speaker opens the morning paper and finds it "bled," a striking image that makes the news feel like a wound, as though every page carries violence.
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