Four Horsemen

erasure of a page from Samuel Pepys' diary

Four horses in the cellar, four evangelists
in a hospital for poor people
and over the chimney a bird, an iron owl.
I drank to the Virgin
and kissed a plain bold maid.


Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Monday 27 February 1659/60.

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