a language spoken whenever the curtains
are drawn with amateur pieces of artwork
meant to look and sound like people,
but poor facsimiles missing lines
that make the figures look monstrous,
otherworldly, nothing like how the figures perceive how they look,
though if we're being perfectly honest,
they sound perfectly coherent, so there's that...
i learned how to draw a line,
and did not stop
at the corner of the page,
as i kept the pencil steady,
somewhat straight, but not really,
though who really is measuring how
symmetrical my line drawing is?
and if they are, then i guess they might
tell me that what i drew wasn’t a line at all,
but more of a r o u n d about way
of getting there
i was inspired by hiroyuki doi,
so i started drawing a whole bunch of circles
on a scrap piece of paper;
my circles aren’t as artistic,
in fact, they kinda look like squares
but i do feel relaxed while drawing them
Fred Aiken Writing 