Fred Aiken Writing

ageless improvement

Daily writing prompt
What do you think gets better with age?
timeless, caught in a river that won't let go,
keep paddling, push against the tides, and just don't,
for the love of all that's holy,
just don't drown,

fading into an ether made up of
dropped conjugations manipulated to make
time feel present, in the moment,
not quite the past

medi-tated medi-cations,
mindlessly consumed for meaning, memory, madness

around//around//around

the music has stopped
and i don’t know where to sit,
in fact,
i’m not certain i am allowed to,
and there’s no one to ask,
but if it were up to me,
then i guess i’d prefer to stand
either way