Office worker

Dave BontaAnxious

to the office where my committee is a sail

my eyes never let me believe

my wife is not my wife

my mind is another day’s notes

and I am making an answer do for a lie

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 12 November 1668.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Anxious
Topics:: wife, work, lie, office

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Dave Bonta's short poem catches the odd, dreamlike numbness of a workday. The speaker heads to an office where even a committee, normally the most plodding thing imaginable, turns into "a sail," something light and drifting that carries him along without any effort of his own.

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