Invitation to the mouth

erasure of a page from Samuel Pepys' diary

[To dinner, my mouth,
to dinner I sell my mouth
(and a little supper),
to dinner, come,
live for the honor
of the open mouth!]


Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 13 February 1659/60.

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