Fred Aiken Writing

July 1, 2023

GALA-LAZY

posters mismatched
and poorly glued to a galaxy 
too lazy to take anything that was grandfathered in
down,
and toys not picked up for thousands of years
and sometimes called human

June 30, 2023

BRICK AND MORTAR

kind words hitting harsh walls
of brick and mortar 
tearing apart the fabric of society
until there’s nothing left except a broken calculator
trying to tally up all the damage

June 29, 2023

SUNNY DISPOSITION

dripping coal on the floor
as the sun drifts off into the distance
hoping to never be seen again
but probably wrong about its existence to begin with