[In the morning
he shouted at the fields
(the crooked fellow)
walked up and down
(the churchyard cock)
broke Barebone’s windows
and went home
(my dog-brother)]
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 12 February 1659/60.
[In the morning
he shouted at the fields
(the crooked fellow)
walked up and down
(the churchyard cock)
broke Barebone’s windows
and went home
(my dog-brother)]
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 12 February 1659/60.
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