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Hanging Ten

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By Harper LewisPublished about 3 hours ago β€’ 1 min read
Hanging Ten
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There’s only one logical explanation:

I fall up and you fall inβ€”

no one can fall down this long, this far

without accelerating, just drifting

in suspended motion. Acceleration was always the problem, mistaking up and in

for down, sinking into the rise of thermals and tide,

drowning instead of surfing.

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About the Creator

Harper Lewis

I'm a subversive weirdo nerd witch who loves rocks. Intrusive rhyme bothers me. Some of my fiction may have provoked divorce proceedings in another state.😈

My words are mine. Suggest ai use and get eviscerated.

MA English literature, CofC

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