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.