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Valves

and pressure

By Harper Lewis Published 4 months ago • 1 min read
 Valves
Photo by João Paulo Carnevalli de Oliveira on Unsplash

Anger drips like a faucet

with a worn-out washer,

Drip

Drip

Drip

Driving you batshit crazy

until fury is achieved.

You take a goddamn pipe wrench

to the blasted fucking

instrument of torture.

Don’t forget to cut

that endless motherfucking

supply of drops

to drip,

or when fury tears off

the goddamn knobs,

rage will arrive

and say

fuck a bunch of dripping-

I’m roaring through this bitch

until everything

is drenched

in these godawful

traitorous

drips.

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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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    Written by Harper Lewis