Fred Aiken Writing

as a joke i purchased some crude oil futures
but forgot about them,
so now i have an	above		ground		pool
with liquid black tar burbling in my backyard,
wasting away under the sun’s watchful glare,
though if it gets cooler,
	i’m thinking about going out there in my skivvies
	with a good book, maybe something about the dust bowl, or some historical sort of piece,
	and float atop my big ole puddle of crude, crude oil