What can
you expect

when charlatans
stand on

every corner
offering

overpriced
short-term

convenient
solutions

for long-term
problems

to those
consumed by fear?

 

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.