Fred Aiken Writing

Tag: space

what music does to the brain (especially if on drugs, but not really)

some wicked song will be sung on an unimportant eve,
before the clashing of thimbles come crashing down,
banging from wall to wall,
while eye sockets bulge out of their cages,
and the wicked song gets synthesized and sampled over and over
until it is unrecognizable,
until it is popping through the roof and into the stratosphere
where no one can touch its sound,
because the sound is not real; it crashes down without a sound,
and disappears without a trace, as the saying goes

Universal Truths in Cleaning Up the Galaxy

cosmic brooms sweep across the sky

cleaning up dirty stains in the carpet made by no one taking off their shoes

as they track whatever

all across the universe

gathering stardust from afar,

celestial debris from one galaxy to the next,

not a single conscious entity seems to be conscientious enough

to take out their own damn

trash

rather than making a mess of what isn’t theirs

Outstretched Hands Reaching for the Right Moment

working out of the garage while measuring

how long it might take them to find what’s left of me

or whether or not there would even be a search

before some stench tipped off a neighbor

and they finally realized how long i had been gone

based on how much my cats had devoured me