If you came this way, taking the route you would be likely to take ...

[thewayupward]

Getting old, Karen Lee. Though not old enough. Sometimes, nowadays, it seems to me like all my friends have grown up and moved on past these things, leaving me still enmeshed in adolescence, a strange feeling for me, having grown up convinced that I was not only (secretly) older and smarter than everyone else around me, but better than them too

Comments

[capn_jil]

I remember sitting down in that very metaphorical well. Things are less dire out here even if they are completely, completely unreal.

good writing. go work on your paper (?).

[thewayupward]

Thanks! The paper is DONE. YAY! I hope your life is nice and not dire. I am liking your strange poemtry.