Fred Aiken Writing

Category: Poetry

i ate something that i probably shouldn’t have,
but i’m not too worried
because if i need to
i could always just listen to a podcast
until i started feeling queasy and just upchuck
whatever it was i shouldn’t have eaten

January 8, 2024

the story i forgot to write//finish

i wrote a story,
but never finished,
and though that might sound like a metaphor for my life,
i can assure you that it is not,
because that story, my story, well,
it will end,
most definitely,
definitively

January 6, 2024

ice teeth

i ate a piece of ice by accident,
but it felt pretty cool,
though that was a dumb joke that i told my nephew
so he might think i’m cool,
but i don’t think it worked