Fred Aiken Writing

Tag: breakfast

fill the void

when i don’t have breakfast,
i go hungry for the rest of the day,
even if i eat something at noon,
even if i eat something at dusk,
there’s a growing pit in me
that can’t seem to reach satiation,
so i begin to eat inward

Breakfast Made for a Strange Chess Player that Doesn’t Know What They’re Doing

whenever i try imaging making breakfastfor someone else,it looks like mannequins playing the trombone as hyper-pop plays from some unknown sourceor stereo system that no one paid for yet,but it’s on credit, so there’s still plenty to be worried about,and a random chess player plays e5,so i have no idea what to do next