People unsure
where to go,

walk around
in circles,

finding comfort
in revisiting

familiar places
and spaces,

Living decades
of life

in a series
of well rehearsed

bland motions,
believing

the best way
to apply change

is ignore it
and hope

it just
goes away.

 

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.