In A Roundabout Way

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. - Thoreau

nothing seems real anymore

nothing feels right

maybe that's it, there's just nothing

it's a sick farce

a wicked whirligig

corrupt

twisted

nonsensical

i open my mouth but there aren't any words

my middle finger aches from constantly going up and down

life has become stuck in an infinite loop

a ruthless, repugnant rotary

a hamster's wheel

i can see where i want to go but i can never get over to the right

i cry out to god but he can't help

he's stuck on the outside with no way in

i'm on the inside with no way out

of this cyanide circle jerk

this dizzying, twelve-round, heavyweight bout

this screwy roundabout

Author's Note

"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Einstein Noodle]

great build to your closing ..some brutal honesty in God's on the outside and can't get in .. we are free birds making choices aren't we?! and i can not stand those stupid round abouts ... i experienced my first one while on a trip somewhere and i had no idea what the heck was going on ... i just kept going around .. i always get an added treat with your Thoreau quotes .. i read somewhere ... an indigenous saying ...in a storm if you watch the tops of the trees ... we think they are sure to be blown down with all the swaying .. but if we look at the base ... we see it is sound and rooted ...now of course trees to blow down and snap off .. but the saying stuck with me ... maybe it was from a movie... actually i think it was ...from "The Revenant" ... dark thoughts and feeling at the cafe' this morning ... a hard year it has been
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[Pete]

we call them rotaries, europeans call them roundabouts. there's one in my city right next to the grocery store and whenever i go through it conjures up all kinds of thoughts and feelings so thought it deserved a write. maybe they hold some secret of life. if you can make it through one of those things you can make it through anything. there's a scene in the movie national lampoon's european vacation with chevy chase where they get stuck in a roundabout in london and can't get out - they keep driving around in circcles for hours and until it gets dark and the traffic finally lets up - hilarious! ... :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAgX6qlJEMc

[Einstein Noodle]

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