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Meeting Adjourned

sir, you are out of order

By Harper Lewis Published 4 months ago • Updated 4 months ago • 1 min read
Runner-Up in Out of Order Challenge
Meeting Adjourned
Photo by Karsten Winegeart on Unsplash

Auschwitz gassed and exterminated Jews humans.

Kristallnacht came will come to Berlin the US in November on Halloween.

Trick or treat?

This ice is too violent for a cocktail

unless molotov

Fresh-sprayed pepper to season

your bullet in the face?

The gestapo marches in the streets.

Anne Frank writes in an attic.

A golden statue is erected in Florida.

Women stop telling their daughters

to throw out

wire coat hangers.

Hitler Trump gives speeches, promoting German Hypochristian Nationalism.

Belladonna rises with Persephone.

The French Resistance is a force

to be reckoned with.

A toothache and a salt mine

Altaussee

Rose Valland

A pine tree falls on a golf course.

Clifford Roberts reprimands Ike:

“Sir, you are out of order.”

and leaves the room.

Ice killed

Alex Pretti,

the Eisenhower Pine,

and Renee Goode.

Another bomb plant

on the river.

Eisenhower Pine

Clifford Roberts

Rose Valland

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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