The Caretaker's Lament by Elisabeth Weiss

Desperation, whether quiet or raucous, drives conventional people into themselves, denying the obvious, and seeking out alternative universes of everyday predictability. Often these driven-down souls never re-emerge into the sweet but terrifying land of gingerbread houses littering the dread highways of leveraged sanity.  For more of my review go here:  http://dougholder.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-caretakers-lament-poetry-by.html