Glass House
crystal palace
Stop dragging the queens,
criticizing tiaras you mangled,
mascara streaking in response
to your abuse.
Tootsie
Mrs. Doubtfire
Some Like it Hot
Shakespeare, anyone?
There’s a new moral philosophy peddled to pedestrians:
Moral Selectivism, the backbone,
the spinal column of
Hypochristian Nationalism.
Just a cherry-picking minute
until they come for you,
hair in braids, merino woven
with linen for cool summer suits,
eating bacon wrapped shrimp
and beef stroganoff
in a mother’s milk cream sauce,
powerful men (accompanied
by Karen) profiting from
the suffering children,
and throwing stones
from mansions
made of Baccarat.
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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