when you’re a second off
it still seems like an emergency
trying to careen off the road
to avoid a squirrel that wandered into the middle of the road
to announce something very important,
without being heard
an ant crawls on my wrist,
and i don’t know where it came from,
but it might be rude, or possibly bad luck,
to kill an ant crawling on me while
i play online chess with my 15 year old nephew
who doesn’t like playing chess,
but will play it every other week with me
because i learned how to play minecraft
so we could play together,
so he kinda owes me
i’ve gotten really into drinking robusta coffee,
not for any particular reason,
or at least, the reason is kinda dumb and i’d rather not go into it,
but if you insist,
i’ve been drinking robusta, rather than arabica,
because everyone crows on and on about how great and wonderful
arabica is and how horrible robusta is,
and i’m a bit of a contrarian,
so i figured i’d drink my caffeine as a please,
no matter the species!
Fred Aiken Writing 