Snack
no words on the noon bus I have a pear
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 10 December 1668.
Dave Bonta
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no words on the noon bus I have a pear
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Thursday 10 December 1668.
Three short lines, and almost nothing happens: someone sits on a midday bus with a pear. That plainness is the point. The poem opens with "no words," and the speaker seems to be in a quiet state, not talking to anyone, perhaps not even thinking in sentences. The mind has gone still.
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