My friend

an erasure of a passage from A. S. Kline's translation of Homer's Odyssey

by KATIE GRAY

                                                                       
                                                                                 My friend,
                                                                              amuse

          me                             with
                                                      waves                            rain

                                                                        clothes and
gold. But now                                    fate
                                                                                    would
                                                                                     speak


                      and
                                                            I doubt you

     are




                                                                          in my journey


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