This morning up and to my office, where Sympson my joyner came to work upon altering my closet, which I alter by setting the door in another place, and several other things to my great content. Busy at it all day, only in the afternoon home, and there, my books at the office being out of order, wrote letters and other businesses. So at night with my head full of the business of my closet home to bed, and strange it is to think how building do fill my mind and put out all other things out of my thoughts.
is my office my work
I lose the door
place my books in order
let the night be a strange ink
building other things
out of my thoughts
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 6 May 1664.