“The Elenore”

The Eleonore is secretly a bitter enemy

of the male. She is a great betrayer of tenderness,

she will crack open any egg, reveal its yolk, and then devour it.

Without remorse she will lay waste to the infrastructure of romance—

nature’s most fragile and beautiful invention. She is an agent of chaos,

destroying everything in her path.

Why’s that? — You ask

She’s a woman, that’s how they always are–

And I hate having to deal with that assumption.