Fred Aiken Writing

searching for what i don’t know

i typed the wrong thing into the search bar
of my browser, yet i still arrived at where i needed to be,
though it’s not entirely where i thought i would go,
but such is the price to be paid when searching for things
on the go

the poems of mine that i like//and the ones i don’t

much like parents with multiple kids,
there are some poems that i like more than others,
so if i ever wanted to have a favorite poem that i wrote,
then i probably should have stopped at the first

an expensive brew

i brewed a cup of expensive coffee,
how much, you might ask,
well, i’d prefer not to get into that,
but let’s just say that if i had kids (which i don’t, thank goodness),
then they probably wouldn’t be going to college