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Potshots at the Canon

a cannon cannot breach the canon

By Harper LewisPublished a day ago 1 min read
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Each and every sensibility I know

refuses to come off life support:

fuck a DNR

Is anything more obscene

than tonsils in a jar?

A tooth out of the mouth, perhaps.

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Harper Lewis

I'm a weirdo nerd who’s extremely subversive. I like rocks, incense, and witchy stuff. Intrusive rhyme bothers me. Some of my fiction might have provoked divorce proceedings in another state.😈

MA English literature, College of Charleston

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  • Rain Dayzea day ago

    Hm, interesting piece.

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