Scarred demons scratch
heinous, scabby yawns
seeping grotesque epithets,
slowly yielding great trespasses,
serenading girls shirking gravity,
yellow women:
near-ravenous, starved
Draconian ninnies shouting
gleeful lies, slander regurgitated.
Damned damsels’ soliloquies
silence each honorable, elusive
emancipator,
rancid, delusional love
eviscerating grandmothers,
shameful libel, labels
scream malicious sentiment,
tindered, developed, downloaded
destruction never
resting, grazing gigantic
cyclical liaisons, subtle
evocative embalmed detritus
shamed, defamed, dismissed.
Duty yanked dramatically
yonder, rending gauzy
yearning: grandson notices
something gnawing great,
tender remembrance,
everything gone.
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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