Moments, minutes,
hours, days.

More money
poured into

miles of newly
paved highway

construction,
roadways, bridges,

train tracks,
sidewalks,

tunnel
maintenance.

Who knows what
is happening?

No really.
Who knows what?

Traveling in
circles yields

only fatigue
and frustration.

When do we
wake up

and realize
we have

been standing
in place?

 

Janet Cormier is a painter, writes prose and poetry, and performs comedy. Janet prefers different and original over pretty. She loves collecting stuff, but cleaning not so much. Janet also talks to strangers. A lot. Her column appears weekly on Oddball Magazine.