THE EXCITEMENT OF LIVING//OR KEEP IT GOING SO YOU DON’T GET DEPRESSED

by Fred Aiken

acetylcholine pushing movement through fossilized
ligaments put on display and curated to fancy the
curiosity of motion played out in many
daguerreotypes laid out on a table for any ole lookie-loo
to do as they do,
and see the daisies pushing through a body clotted from the exhaustion
of living excitedly mundane