Fred Aiken Writing

September 5, 2023

VIDEO GAME ATTENTION SPAN

it’s hard to get through to you,
when you keep playing that damn video game,
it takes up all your time and attention,
i really wish you would just listen to the rotund verisimilitude
playing in the background,
it’s made up of the same radiation that
created the universe,
though i suppose so too were those video games 
that entropy seems to love

September 4, 2023

PROFUNDITY WRAPPED IN BACON

sometimes i’ll write a poem,
not because it’s the best way to convey my thoughts,
but because my hands will cramp up,
and writing a story seems like it would take too long,
so i just do a quick poem to make
it seem as if what i have to say is, well, more profound than what it might actually be

September 3, 2023

WAREHOUSE CATS

the cat that hangs out at the warehouse where i work
one time came up to me and asked me
why the bermuda doesn’t grow as straight or verdant anymore,
to which i had to shrug 
and respond that i didn’t know,
i don’t know too much about grass and that sort of shit,
but the warehouse cat still wanted to be pet,
so i obliged