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Kwitcherbitchin

My Prussian Roots

By Harper LewisPublished 25 days ago Updated 25 days ago 1 min read

I’m of Northern European and Native American roots, pretty sure the Germanic folk hailed from the small hamlet of Kwitcherbitchin, eventually breeding with travelers from Fixyerfuckingrammar and Punctuateyergoddamnsentences, on the other side of the mountains, leaving those lands after some time to marry in with inhabitants of Bespecific and Showdonttell. Eventually, their descendants got on a ship, and there were some illicit relations with Concretelanguage, resulting in the bastard births of Strongverbs, Subversion, and Sensorydetail before making landfall on Literaryallusion at the mouth of the River of Alliteration and settling in Citeyoursources, on the banks of Lake Threedimensionalcharacters, in the shadow of Realisticdialogue Mountain. I am all of my ancestors and carry the maps of their native lands in my blood.

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Harper Lewis

I'm a weirdo nerd who’s extremely subversive. I like rocks, incense, and all kinds of witchy stuff. Intrusive rhyme bothers me.

I’m known as Dena Brown to the revenuers and pollsters.

MA English literature, College of Charleston

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  • John Oliver Smitha day ago

    Cool . . . Haveyouevertriedtoputallofthatintoafamilytree?

  • Patrick Brown24 days ago

    Hilarious!

  • Tanya Lei25 days ago

    haha, this is great!

  • Cindy Calder25 days ago

    Oh my! I'm still laughing. As an English major, I thoroughly appreciated your sense of humor in this one! A superb piece of literary genius, my friend!

  • Paul Stewart25 days ago

    Oh, you! Love this. Tho you knew I would.

  • This is funny, I want to do a personal version inserting my own summarizing word combos 😆

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