I’m pacing to the door 
back and forth 
the dog is pacing too
picking up the shared unrest
so now I have two shadows
three times the moods

and I don’t want to go out
but I don’t want to stay in
so I’m vandalizing the carpet
with miles of misadventure 
in different outfits
with different shoes
to confuse anyone tracking 
someone must have spelled me out
into a hex of indecision 
and now I’m being judged by the plants
who would all be dead without me

I went to the porch meandering,
enlightenment! Alas!
but my neighbor had the same idea
and now I’m forced to drink civility 
back into my blood
until I’m one with the universe