A boy is going to the king.
I enter his name in my book.
How many churches have
a barrel of pickled oysters?
Open the barber’s hands with
his own hands: a close business.
This letter is like a house—
a very well writ one.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 21 April 1660.
How many churches have
a barrel of pickled oysters?
not nearly enough obviously
How many churches have a barrel of pickled oysters? A wonderful question indeed.
Thanks for liking that bit of late-night whimsy.