Collision Course

by Fred Aiken

all moments spent looking for something shiny while thinking about the dullness thumping at the corner of my cranium going sixty miles per hour, steaming off into a night made glorious by ingloriousness, jonesing forlorn looks at the ticking arms spread thin to embrace the all encompassing, head collision with a rock piled high and cemented in sterling aluminum spat out of the core of a planet too tired to say no anymore, won’t it look dazzling, siempre deslumbrante