Famous

Amanda Harris
Aug 29, 2017 · 1 min read

The words fall from my
mouth but I can’t name
any of them because the
words abuse me and the
words hit me and the
words are just like you
except bigger and uglier
and don’t let that fool
you for a minute into
thinking that you’re
famous because you are
only a punctuation mark
at the end of a sentence.

— Poetry
— between sand and gravel
— (Penguin, 2019)

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Amanda Harris

Written by

Author of Rage (Penguin, 2015). Author of #bagpipecity (Penguin, 2016). Author of No Surrender (Penguin, 2017).

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