Buckles to my shoes

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Dave Bonta

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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Dave Bonta (bio) crowd-sources his problems by following his gut, which he shares with 100 trillion of his closest microbial friends — a close-knit, symbiotic community comprising several thousand species of bacteria, fungi, and protozoa.
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3 Responses to Buckles to my shoes

  1. Lucy says:
    January 23, 2013 at 2:28 am

    A particularly satisfying one that.

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