Timeless

Up very betimes to finish my letter and writ it fair to Mr. Gawden, it being to demand several arrears in the present state of the victualling, partly to the King’s and partly to give him occasion to say something relating to the want of money on his own behalf. This done I to the office, where all the morning. At noon after a bit of dinner back to the office and there fitting myself in all points to give an account to the Duke and Mr. Coventry in all things, and in my Tangier business, till three o’clock in the morning, and so to bed…

time is a demand
in the present

to say something relating to money
is to back myself
into a clock


Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 27 January 1666.

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