At noon my wife and I met at the Wardrobe, and there dined with the children, and after dinner up to my Lady’s bedside, and talked and laughed a good while. Then my wife end I to Drury Lane to the French comedy, which was so ill done, and the scenes and company and every thing else so nasty and out of order and poor, that I was sick all the while in my mind to be there. Here my wife met with a son of my Lord Somersett, whom she knew in France, a pretty man; I showed him no great countenance, to avoyd further acquaintance. That done, there being nothing pleasant but the foolery of the farce, we went home.
At war with the bed
and the scenes and company and everything
else in my mind, I count to one.
Here: be nothing
but the farce.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 30 August 1661.
Wounded twisted in sheets bemoan
gone zero balance on their watch
nothing left but take out a loan
though payback even sheep debauch
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