The King’s Coffee

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Dave Bonta

erasure of a page from Samuel Pepys' diary

[I troubled my hands
with rogue handwriting.

Let posterity know how
the King desired coffee.

I heard for certain that
it would prove small pleasure.

I gave a bottle of mist
at a great loss.]


Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 9 January 1659/60

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2 Responses to The King’s Coffee

  1. SJane says:
    January 10, 2013 at 1:28 am

    Wonderful. A bottle of mist!

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