Fred Aiken Writing

my shadow and me

i’m afraid of my own shadow,
but only on thursday,
the rest of the week
we’re the best of friends

the direction of a line

if you italicize a straight line,
does it not still point in the same direction,
or maybe italicizing things just has the
ten(den)cy to make them fancier

one of the ways i’m bad at business

i was given business cards
with my job title and company logo on them,
and told to pass them out,
for business reasons, i presume,
but instead i mostly use them as impromptu bookmarks, and then forget to pass out