Going to heaven

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Dave Bonta

[I left my business, sent for my best fur cap,
went to Heaven and dined on a breast of mutton.
Happiness carried me in his coach.]

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 28 January 1659/60.

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2 Responses to Going to heaven

Fire Bird says:

January 29, 2013 at 1:22 pm

happiness carried me in his coach

this is lovely
- Dave Bonta says:
  
  January 29, 2013 at 2:51 pm
  
  Thanks! I think I must’ve been influenced by Dickinson there: “His carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.”