Fred Aiken Writing

Tag: gossip

November 14, 2024

celebrity names

i had an afternoon dream
	where i 	met		u	m	a	thur(man)
and discussed for what felt like an inordinate amount of time
like toomuchtime for it to be considered reasonable, sociable, acceptable,
discussing how to pronounce her name, ooohhh-ma, 
ouuue-mae-ma
ooooo-ahhhhh-maaaaaa
oohh-maaaai,
though before long
i realized	that i 		spent too much money on my vowels
so i woke up without getting to ask uma thurman,
(the version of uma thurman
	in my dream)
whether she had ever met jim carey,
which prompted the rest of my afternoon looking 
through their respective imdb’s to see if
uma thurman and jim carey had ever worked together
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October 24, 2022

Water Quickens Through the Tongue

it’s very public

well known, all over town, city, village, pueblo,

photographs snapped in haste

and left even quicker

as whispers billow through the sycamore’s cracked branches

snatching up little gossip

little tidbits,

floating sand of what never seems to be forgotten

or learned to be taken for granted

as cement paves the way, wave, whisked away like so many days

passing time spent spending little secrets

reaching through the crest of time still reeling forward

but it’s already known

and out in the world,

so please don’t fret

because we know

we get it