Ruin

erasure of a page from Samuel Pepys' diary

A hard creed.
My lord could not get
a bed at a grave.

Day came. A can
of beer upon my ear
spoiled my work.


Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 24 March 1659/60.

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