Crisis of identity

In the morning I was able to put on a wide shoe on the foot, and to the office without much pain, and there sat all the morning. At noon home to dinner, where Creed to discourse of our Tangier business, which stands very bad in the business of money, and therefore we expect to have a committee called soon, and to acquaint them among other things with the order come to me for the not paying of any more pensions. We dined together, and after dinner I to the office, and there very late, very busy, doing much business indeed, and so with great comfort home to supper, and so to bed to ease my foot, which toward night began to ake.

in the morning I was a wide shoe
at noon a committee
and after dinner a bus
which toward night began to ache


Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 16 July 1667.

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