my english teacher was right,
and i rely too heavily on spellcheck,
so know every third word,
i misspell,
sometimes by accident,
though sometimes just for fun,
and i let the computer’s spellcheck do the heavy lifting,
since i can’t be bothered,
and i guess when the world has ended,
computers and electricity are no more,
then i might sit down and learn to spell
each word correctly,
though i’m not quite sure what for
the core lesson to take away here is that
at a/n/y moment,
without warning,
an electrical storm could blow through here,
or a flood,
or some sort of nuclear warhead gimmick,
y/o/u know, something, anything, for the love that is (un)holy, everything,
and wipe away this thought as if it never was,
nor ever is
You know how close the words ‘anesthetic’ is to ‘aesthetic’. I get them confused all the time. Thank god for auto-correct, amiright.
Yeah, so what?
It means…that beauty was originally an alternative pain killer.
The two men watch as an asteroid heads toward the Earth. It looks like a moving sun getting closer and closer. Their eyes are attached to the asteroid and nothing else. Soft, pale speckles move across their field of vision.
One of the men moves a couple of feet to his right to get another angle on the asteroid. His eyes don’t leave the flames biting through the sky.
I imagine it’s a beauty not to feel pain.
Fred Aiken Writing 