About the Obvious

I’ve been going for more walks lately,
for obvious reasons. The season is ambiguous
(ambivalent?) but it’s always at least warm enough.
I try not to get caught up in the surreality of it all,
the quietness and Spring and all the people
out and about (but about nothing in particular).
I try to avoid them, of course, I would anyway,
but I try not to be obvious about it (to be about
nothing in particular). Today, though, was the first
day that anyone else, nearly everyone else, avoided me,
and they were obvious about it (about the fear, or maybe
not wanting to be judged, or maybe trying to help,
or maybe nothing in particular).

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Jordan Meiller is a writer whose work has been published in Yellow Chair Review, Golden Walkman Magazine, and Guesthouse, among others. He lives in Portland, OR. https://certainofeventualfailure.wordpress.com/