Fred Aiken Writing

kept in from the rain

the rain keeps me inside
because i don’t want to get wet,

the rain keeps me,
because i don’t know how to forget its name

in the walls

something died in the walls of our house,
but i don’t know what it was
because i’m not superman, so i can’t see through walls,
so i’m probably going to have to punch a hole through the wall to find out,
and then probably youtube how to patch up the drywall 
after the fact,
but all i can say is i hope it’s no damn raven
squawking about the nameless evermore

that one primitive radio gods show i went to when they and i were younger

primitive radio gods came on the radio,
but no one heard them because the radio died back in 1995,
so i went to one of their live shows,
which didn’t sound as good of quality,
but maybe that’s because i prefer vinyl