Homeless

Paul Rousseau

I slip from one day to the next,
unknown and unseen.
I exist in the shadows,
clinging to the fringes.
You see me, but you do not see me:
the rumpled, bone-skinny man on the street,
the abused woman on a city bench,
the hungry child in a food line.
I am invis    .  

Paul Rousseau is a semi-retired physician and writer, published or forthcoming in 0The Healing Muse, Blood and Thunder, Intima. A Journal of Narrative Medicine, The Human Touch, Please See Me, Months To Years, The Examined Life, Burningword Literary Journal, Cleaning up Glitter, The Centifictionist,  Dr. T. J. Eckleburg Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Tendon, and others. Lover of dogs.