Fishnets and High Heels

I don’t know how
fishnet stockings
and high heels
work
but they do.

There’s a reason
cliches exist:
someone once called
a cliche
a fossil poem
so maybe
fishnets and heels
are fossil avatars
of the temple
of Aphrodite.

No matter,
getting caught
in the net
still seems to work;
a fossil
can always tell you something
about your life.

This one says:
You evolved to get here
but you’ve still got that appendix,
you had gills in the womb,
and it’s not so hard to believe
there may yet be in you
vestiges of a time
when it took a map
to get you where you were going.