Ode to Cliches

short piece about our daily overuse of cliches

An ode to clichés

At the end of the day, in the final analysis

So many clichés sound ghastly.

When all is said and done, to put it in a nutshell,

Why use so many words,

When one will do instead,

Lastly.

Author's Note

Listening to politicians, football commentators ( and myself!) I've become more and more aware of how we use clichés so much. Lazy? Unavoidable? sometimes perhaps...
'It remains to be see' :)

Reviews

[Woody]

nice one :)
I'm all for cliches, I admit. but that's probably because I'm not a native speaker.
nice to find someone writing for fun here. there are so many serious writers/poets.