Happy Endings De-Constructed

They still love them in Hollywood

even though Hollywood is than I am

and inclined to employ hacks

where the poet would like to troll her line

in romantic waters.

Maybe that’s why they end the film

with the kiss and the start of an agreed life.

Maybe because each of us has had a hangover

of too many hoped for ending happily-never-after

the final credits play.

Or too many partners later

Poetry seems a foreign tongue

reserved for Idealists or drunken Irish folk.

Women are reduced by Soaps

to caring more

for the man on the screen

than the one in her arms.

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submitted by Christine Emmert chrismert@yahoo.com or gordianus@earthlink.net