From Writing Notebook 2021, published in 2022.
Seeker
i.
Headache
Personal Questions
Insurance
Trains of Thought
By Name
Here
read the sign
on the psychic’s house.
I am on the list
for an appointment
but
I don’t know, I don’t know.
ii.
Now and in this one place
I concentrate. It is difficult.
That’s how it’s going to be.
It’s not much.
No, because I have too many questions.
7/28/21
Claudia McGill Writes Poetry, Did You Know That? 
Trains of thought…I don’t know how to get off of that one. (K)
Yes, me too. Over and over again I get on and ride way past my stop. As it says, I have too many questions and then some.
I’m there with you and Kerfe on that train.
But also, the first part reminds me of my question every time we pass a sign for a psychic–shouldn’t they know you’re coming? 😏
I am laughing. Because I have wondered the same thing myself, why the need for all the rigamarole? And, if you know the future, shouldn’t you also be making a ton of money in the stock market, say? And if the spirits are so eager to speak to me, I do wish they’d just call on me directly. Ahh, the afterlife and its problems…
I think this whenever we walk past signs for psychics in Philadelphia. 🤣