Fred Aiken Writing

March 8, 2024

learning esperanto

if i had to say which language was the most fun to learn,
then i’d have to say esperanto,
because no one can really speak it,
but it’s based on so many different languages
that it makes me feel like i know everything,
while being understood by no one

March 7, 2024

falling asleep to uslysses

i had a dream
in which i was reading ulysses to a professor
as they tried to fall asleep, as if joyce was
appropriate slumber foder,
though when i woke up,
i couldn’t find my copy of ulysses
and thought i might have to buy another one
at 4am, but there wasn’t any open book stores

March 6, 2024

the house that no one sees

eyes go blind trying to read
truth between the lines,
as the house of wisdom sits upon its pedestal,
and flicks and flings all sorts of recriminations
at the depravity it has caused,
at the life that’s been ignored