In the Hague (tanka)

erasure of a page from Samuel Pepys' diary

Two pretty ladies
kiss the two blades with them.
I drop my rapier.
We walk up and down the town.
In every door, the moon.


Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 14 May 1660.

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