Poetry | Fred Aiken Writing

February 6, 2023

The Treachery of Reaching for the Remote While Channel Surfing the Agony of One’s Inner-Self

the sun rises, casting shadows on the distant horizon, floating upwards, boundless, treacherous, violent,
standing at the edge, tangled in a mess of hair loped off and drifting through the wind,
with a heart torn, between ancestral teachings and the fast fact-based pace of the modern world, shooting stars, blood-shot eyes, and wondrous memories

my spirit searches,through an open wound, the quagmire, gaping open, what was once a flesh wound has become infected,
this land that I was born into, among, from, both familiar and unknown to me,
sipping organic, fair trade tea from a ceramic mug at the precipice
while contemplating the meandering pockmarks of momentary insanity
blithely blissfully obliterating all the known qualities of quarks in motion

a journey adjourned and simplified, I look over my shoulder
and ask the non-important questions drifting off the tongue

February 5, 2023

Dental Works Posthaste, Unless You Don’t Have Insurance; In Which Case, Just Wing it

absurd dental work postponed in a moment of weakness, fantasy
creeping through the crevices of molars sprung a leak and fussing
over the mundane cyclical sickness feigning health

among the leprous lecherously leeching onto literary meandering
called a mammoth, in the eviscerated moments shrinking inward
to the cold and unforgiving or the cold and not quite conscious or the frigid, placid

plaques held plague feasting on enamel as tongue meets tooth
meets moment of realizing pain and breath and spoken word
come together to exist; and flex, and rave, and criticize

from the brief refrain from collapsing atoms masticating in a a moment of
absolute silence, bear in mind, barely holding on to what happens from one
day to the next; though thankfully I think there’s a drug for that

February 3, 2023

In For a Nickel, Out Towards the Ocean Liner Blockade that Represents the Representative of Metamorphosis Morphitizer

light discussion of
circulation breaking breath taking lordosis on the move
towards cowardly earth shattering in the brink
of collapse of another phenomenal orgasm
that no one hears over the pang-bang-sha-bama-wama