Personal protective equipment
office where my hands bled ink little house of lead
bring me my vizard my tin eyes
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 24 April 1669.
Dave Bonta
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office where my hands bled ink little house of lead
bring me my vizard my tin eyes
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 24 April 1669.
The title promises safety gear, but the poem gives us something stranger. The speaker looks back at an "office" where their hands "bled ink," as if writing there was a kind of wound. Calling it a "little house of lead" makes the place feel small, heavy and poisonous.
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