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Bullet in the Face
For Paul and John's Three Word Haiku/Senryu Unofficial Challenge
By Harper LewisPublished about a month ago • Updated 29 days ago • 1 min read
Ice, ice baby
apocalyptic
Anti-Americanism
annihilated
😈 author note: yeah, it was almost like you double-dog dared me. Couldn’t not.
About the Creator
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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Comments (8)
The difference between poetry and prose is like the difference between the big bang and the so-called steady state universe. The better the poem the more efficiently and intensely it communicates. You blew my mind in three words. Thanks for joining the fun!
I love this, Harper. You've said SO much, with just three words. Even though I'm not from, nor in, the US, the alliteration, the word choice, the rhythm and the resonance (as in 'resounding sound', rather than - or perhaps as well as - 'it landed in my being and rippled throughout my body'...actually, definitely as well as...) filled me with all the the things that (I believe) it should - anger, fear, despair and hope. hope because I can see resistance. hope because people are living and dying by their values of care and compassion. hope because words like these...poetry like this...art like this...are signs of a stirring towards change. towards revolution.
Good one HL.
Americanize Authoritarianism? Abominable! Should I put this on my page? ;)
I wasn’t ready for the twist you gave it .. so fun!
hahaha! nihlist bitch! love it! also makes that last line land harder! thank you for taking part! knew you wouldnt disappoint! im still working on my prose for yours, ill get there, but its emotionally draining!
WOW. BLESSINGS
Applied to the GOp so true