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Fashion your latest lies
with repercussions
for others. Arrange your life
with people who count,
line them up like
foot soldiers
to trample me out of
existence, shaming me
for bleeding on
your feet
while life flows
out of me
and I become
the nothing
you say I am.
About the Creator
Harper Lewis
Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing!
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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