Walk
I walk to keep fresh my interest in the unself
venture further to some obscure place
where I find a piece of green and busy night
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 5 February 1669.
Dave Bonta
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I walk to keep fresh my interest in the unself
venture further to some obscure place
where I find a piece of green and busy night
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 5 February 1669.
Walking, for the speaker, isn't exercise or a way to get somewhere. It's a way of staying curious about "the unself," a striking word for whatever lies outside the speaker's own thoughts and habits.
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