Michelle Kennedy is a freelance director, writer, dramaturg and bossy pants.  She writes fiction, plays, erotica, music reviews, tweets (@mnancyken) and blogs.  She is a horrible poet.  She is also a sex educator and might totally write about that too! 

we sit on a park bench and we smoke and we talk about the weather and
our cats and our shoes and who spent more money on the other’s birthday
present and the truth is, when i look at you now, after all these years
i want nothing more-NOTHING more-than to punch you. 

is that awful.  i suspect it’s probably awful.  i used to love you and
i’ve become exceptionally good at pretending i still love you.  god. 
there isn’t even a child keeping me here.  i think i just really love the
shoes you bought me for christmas last year and you always order just
perfectly for me when we go for sushi.  i’d hate to have to look for that
all over again. 

so, park bench and cigarettes it is.  it could be worse, i could have to have sex with you…