15 Anxiety poems

We'd  like  to  talk  with  you  about  fear they  said  so many  people  live  in  fear  these  days  they  drove  up all  four  of  them  in  a  small  car nice   boy  they  said beautiful  dogs they  said  so  friendly  the  man  ahead of  the  woman  the other  two  waiting  in  the  drive  I was  outside digging up the garden no one home I said what   are  you  selling   anyway  I'm   not  interested  I said  well  you  have  a  nice  day  they  said  here's  our card  there's   a  phone  number  you  can  call  anytime any  other   houses  down  this  road  anyone  else   live here  we'd  like  to  talk  to  them  about  living  in  fear

The waiting room at the clinic i've been coming here two years the magazines are still from 2019 the chair still makes that sound i feel okay here which took a long time to feel okay about

Nobody told me about the forms the constant forms for everything health insurance forms tax forms lease forms somewhere there's a form for learning about all the forms i haven't found it

the spiral starts with something small and then it's everything and then it's everything that could go wrong and then it's everything that has gone wrong and then i breathe and it's smaller but it was big for a while

My brain makes a sound when i'm anxious not a literal sound more like a frequency underneath everything else some days i don't notice it most days i do