Fred Aiken Writing

Tag: car accident

May 21, 2024

car accident

i witnessed a car accident today,
it wasn’t a major accident,
no one died or anything,
but it was kinda startling to see
these two metal and plastic death boxes hurtling directly
into one another,
with little carbon flesh mounds jerked back and forth,
wondering, will i live through this,
or will this be the day, the hour, the moment
of my demise,
and then hood of the car crumpled,
the engine roared, the oil curdled, and the screeches
reached through each drivers’ soul,
asking for a prayer to lift them
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December 14, 2023

inside our house

do you think the other customers of home depot will notice that i forgot to put on deodorant before
going to the store to buy a new door knob because a guest
that both my wife and i were unfamiliar with decided to open
our front door a bit too aggressively
and broke the inner bolt where the key supposedly locks us inside our house
with nothing to do but spend countless nights romanticizing our present for the future,
or do you think the other customers won’t care about my body odor,
because perhaps they’re more concerned by the fact that i had a car accident
before arriving at home depot and part of my body,
a significant part, more than i care to discuss here,
is covered in blood and bruises and i’m slowly dying in the plumbing aisle
while a scissor lift cordoned off the store from witnessing my death crawling all over their products