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The Wellness Show


   


what do I do now that a me is a me
what do I do without a gimmick to rely on

my furniture is all suspended
I knock on my door to go back in time

some me lives in a made up picture
stuck to the floor in a room

I rearrange my legs on paper to find
something comfortable

I lift the lids off all my pots and pans
I am always waiting for something to boil over

I wrap each chair in toilet paper
my house only comes alive at night

what do I do when everything stays
suspended what do I do when I see you

on the big screen what do I do
when I see your pixels all suspended

I can never reach out for a kiss
what do I do with my hands

what do I do with my legs
what do I do with all this noncompliance




Olivia Muenz holds an MFA in creative writing from Louisiana State University, where she earned the Robert Penn Warren Thesis Award in prose and served as an editor for New Delta Review. She is the author of the chapbook Where Was I Again (Essay Press). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, Pleiades, Denver Quarterly, Salt Hill Journal, Anomaly, Southeast Review, and elsewhere. She currently teaches at Louisiana State University. Find her online at oliviamuenz.com.