Buckles to my shoes

erasure of a page from Samuel Pepys' diary

[I sat with duty and guilt and shame,
a brother to the poor.
This day I began to put on buckles to my shoes.]


Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 22 January 1659/60.

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