when i got out of college,
the major news story was the collapse of the housing market,
and now, 10 years later,
the major news story seems to also be the collapse of the housing market,
which makes me think i might have flunk out of college
jane’s addiction plays in the background
from another room, i’m not sure where,
like a low rumble,
there’s graffiti on the concrete walls,
because the kids used to draw on the walls of their parents’ houses
with crayon and were told that they shouldn’t,
but the kids didn’t want to listen,
so they grew up to do it with aerosolized acrylics
while smoking weed and not caring about anything,
because that’s the fashion that keeps on trending,
and i’m not quite sure if i should accept where i’m at or try to get a job down the street at the local taco bell
my mom said she started drinking a probiotic drink
now that she’s approaching her seventies,
and i asked if it was kombucha, because that’s the only probiotic drink i know of,
and at that i’m not even 100% certain that it is probiotic,
which led me down a 4 hour internet rabbit hole
of looking up the difference between probiotic and prebiotic drinks,
and after all that time and energy,
i’ve come out of the other side of that rabbit hole
none the wiser,
which is what i’d like engraved on my tombstone
Fred Aiken Writing 