Fred Aiken Writing

Tag: war

pick a side

the war started, 
but i don’t seem to know which side i’m on,
because no one picked me,
just like in middle school
when none of my peers wanted me to be on their kickball team,
so i took up skateboarding instead…
i sucked at that too

The War I Keep Forgetting I’m Fighting

youre not the person i knew before
i left to fight the war
the one where everyone gets all bloody
and no one returns at the end
so i guess youre wondering how it is im here as it is
and to that i would implore to stop asking so many fudgingnutterbutterreesespiecesquestions