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Fair Fare

taken for a ride

By Harper Lewis Published 6 months ago Updated 6 months ago 1 min read
Fair Fare
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Nothing like a carnival, let’s get hand stamps, screw paying per ride—

fiercely fickle flat fee feels

like a bargain.

Let’s get dizzy on the Himalaya,

remove the ground beneath my feet

on the gravitron,

then strap me to the wheel

where Ferris becomes feral:

fear of falling

It looks fair from the ground

until Catherine’s wheel crashes down.

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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