Off ice
office where I deliver answers to a bore
where I was glad of being bled
I hope to get off its ice
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 26 November 1668.
Dave Bonta
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office where I deliver answers to a bore
where I was glad of being bled
I hope to get off its ice
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 26 November 1668.
The poem plays on one small trick: the title "Off ice" is just "office" split in two. Once you notice that, the whole thing reads like a pun with a chill in it. The office becomes a frozen place, and the speaker wants out of it.
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