The Place for Cliches                                          


            It isn’t a cliché
            To say that a
            Cliché commands a rightful place
            In poetry or prose,
            As necessary as an SOS
            If you are lost at sea
            Or find yourself within her arms
            When “not enough” has just turned into
            “Can this really be?”


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            Emanuel E. García, The Virtues of Calamity, One Hundred Poems2013