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By Harper Lewis Published 4 months ago 1 min read
Blues
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delta blues speak the language of loss,

Oh, death, oh,

death

take me down to the river,

spread me out on the mudflats,

let the fiddler crabs scurry around

what’s left of me,

dirt,

salt,

water.

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About the Creator

Harper Lewis

Intrusive rhyme bothers me, except as a weapon.

Intertextuality is my passion.

Formalist/ New Critical are my guiding theories.

My words are mine, not a robot’s.

MA English literature, CofC

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    Written by Harper Lewis