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Ready to Give Up

Exhausted

By Harper Lewis Published 6 days ago 1 min read
Ready to Give Up
Photo by Ramin Khatibi on Unsplash

Neglect, abuse.

Why won’t you lift us up?

It should be easy

from down there

in the dirt.

Mental Health

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