"Man in Black Coat: As Saint Martin said, "Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor." For my labors, you will go to Roma, summit of all your pursuits.
Ovid: [looking down at his dirt floor] I will act as though you didn't just spout palindromic Latin."
--Roundabout
"tell me a dead thing
and I believe
in that heat of discovery
I would have a fish
we bought it all
the cheat and the war
and the nothing
but night tomorrow
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 4 June 1662"
--@davebonta.bsky.social
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