Extreme position

erasure of a page from Samuel Pepys' diary

[My foot came to see my hand
as an impertinent echo,
a gone member, thinking how to stand—
a thing on whom no being went.]


Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 17 February 1659/60.

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