Dragging Face First

by Fred Aiken

I might be a better writer if I didn’t watch so many Youtube videos,

or scroll through reddit for ten minutes,

which turns into twenty,

an hour,

four,

eight,

changing tabs one after another,

I found an artist on Instagram that I need to check out,

as if I might buy their work,

which is worth hundreds of thousands,

that I don’t have because I don’t write enough to be profitable,

instead I spend countless hours on Zillow and Carvana

thinking about what I might do if I had millions

at my disposal,

but unfortunately I don’t,

because I didn’t write,

I liked,

I followed,

I post