Fred Aiken Writing

Tag: Poetry

the direction of a line

if you italicize a straight line,
does it not still point in the same direction,
or maybe italicizing things just has the
ten(den)cy to make them fancier

one of the ways i’m bad at business

i was given business cards
with my job title and company logo on them,
and told to pass them out,
for business reasons, i presume,
but instead i mostly use them as impromptu bookmarks, and then forget to pass out

December 18, 2023

guessing the direction

if i had to find north,
because i was in the wilderness and needed
to find my way by identifying the various
topological directions,
then i would point in a random direction,
and hope i wasn’t too far off