I kissed you so hard
cars crashed on the highway
near where we parked hotly.
I kissed you so long you thought
you received a lifetime sentence
and your lips would get no parole.
Both of which were found in the dictionary
while looking up the word cliche because a poet
friend called another poet friend a cliche
(a person or character whose behavior is
predictable or superficial).
It is 2:26 a.m.
and this human is having a sherry
contemplating life and death
and the no man in my bed
in my fifty-sixth year
They have bombed the twin towers
the American pyramids
Eleanor Wormwood has been published in The Antietam Review, Rhino, Perpetuum Mobile, Main Channel Voices, Creation Journal and at Innisfree Poetry online. New work will be appearing at Hotmetal Press online.