Pedestrian
should I walk with a stick or talk with a poet road to road we are all things on foot
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 31 March 1669.
Dave Bonta
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should I walk with a stick or talk with a poet road to road we are all things on foot
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 31 March 1669.
The poem opens with a small choice: should the speaker walk with a stick, or talk with a poet? Both are ways of getting along a road. A stick steadies your body, while a conversation with a poet steadies something else, perhaps your thinking.
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