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