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Glass House

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By Harper Lewis Published 3 months ago • Updated 3 months ago • 1 min read
Glass House
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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.

Poetry

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