Fred Aiken Writing

i think dmx and i would be friends,

if he wasn’t dead,

or addicted to cocaine, i believe it was,

but i could be wrong,

since i didn’t follow up on my assumptions about dmx

by googling his name,

but not because i didn’t try,

but rather because i accidentally hit a z instead of an x

and went down an internet rabbit hole of

korean history and how the current geopolitical state of affairs came to be,

which only confused me more about life and history and the human condition,

so next time i’ll just stick to internet searches about dmx,

or at least try to relate the search

back to him