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Do you save your best words?
Which ones do you spend like
casino vouchers?
(Do you)
Keep some cash
tucked away in your wallet
or sock? It’s to me
a waste—
hoarding words, winnowing
them away, out of
circulation.
Or are the banal syllables you throw
the only ones you know?
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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