Wrought & Found

Original poems & found images

–by Mia Sara

Cherry

If youth is wasted on the young,
what’s my excuse for today
wasting more than I have left,
trying not to stare at the woman
in the pristine, vanilla ice cream
colored mustang, whose face,
for all the fancy spit and polish,
was not still cherry, like her car,
but a total wreck. I guess like me
she’s paid her dues, feeds the meter,
reads the news, knows the score
is always more than meets the eye.
You’d think by now, the two of us,
had earned our license not to care.

*image credit: “Cherry Pie” by Kelly Ichinose, 2012

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Mia Sara is an actress and poet living in Los Angeles. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in poemmemoirstory, Pembroke Magazine, The Write Room, PANK, Cultural Weekly, The Kit Kat Review, Forge, The Dirty Napkin, St. Ann’s Review, among others. For more please visit: http://wheretofindmiasara.tumblr.com/