Fred Aiken Writing

Tag: hunger

a ghost named steve

i ate a ghost 
that sat in the back of the bus with me,
the ghost called himself steve,
but i found him kinda empty,
and i still felt a little hungry after consuming 
his memory

i didn’t eat last night,
not because i didn’t want to,
but i forgot, and then it got late, like after midnight,
and i became too tired to fix anything,
even too tired to warm up Poptarts,
so i went to bed hungry,
feeling like i did something wrong and this was my punishment,
but i don’t know what exactly i did wrong