Fred Aiken Writing

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April 7, 2025

ask and sometimes receive

i’m not asking for much
but i’m still asking,

and i don’t think that 
should disqualify me from receiving a response,
no matter how transparent,

though it might seem rather silly,
at least at this point,

i’d still like to receive the truth
and nothing but the truth,
but i’m not one of those silly folks 
that goes into the other room and holds their breath like some David Blaine magic trick,

so just tell me what i want to hear,
and i swear,
	that’s the last you’ll hear from me
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April 3, 2025

pen something something sword

clicky pens only bounce once
	before losing their buoyancy forever,
	which is especially true when the clicky pen is thrown against the wall as violently as possible to test the theory 
of the pen supposedly being mightier than the sword,
	which i suppose is only true in very specific scenarios,
	and the wall test is not one of them
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April 2, 2025

handwriting smudged by apple particulates

i held a half-eaten apple in my hands as i walked into the post office to send off a letter i wrote to my old college roommate to let him know i forgot my facebook password and didn't feel bothered enough to change it, so i figured i'd just write him a letter, even though my handwriting is shit--like a true crime against humanity sort of quality--and it's not made any better by my eating the apple while i wrote the letter, so now there's apple particulates all over the page, and my hand is covered in apple juice, which transfers onto the ink and smudges as i write the letter, composed of scribbles barely that, incomprehensible, poorly spelled scribbles meant to represent some form of communication or another, and it's not like i needed to send the letter to him, since it has been years and years since we last spoke, and neither of us had done the due diligence to keep up with one another, but either way, i somehow reconnected with collegiate fling of mine, whom i learned ended up marrying, and then divorcing, my old college roommate, so it seemed like the decent thing to do, you know, to let him know that we were dating now, not that it was absolutely necessary, but what is expected in these sorts of situations? i don't know, but anyway, in the letter i wrote and mailed out to him i asked if it was alright if i dated his ex-wife after all these years of not seeing or talking to one another, though to be honest, it's not like if he says 'no' then it will deter me from dating her, since i'm at that age where meeting new people, especially romantically, is incredibly hard, like an unfathomable task that i tend not to do, which is probably why my college roommate's ex-wife and i started dating in the first place, and i like her, you know, so i want this whole thing to go smoothly, and i suppose in my head i'm thinking, well, maybe i need to let my old college roommate know so that it doesn't, i guess, become a problem if he were to be blindsided by the news of our romance--though maybe i'm just overthinking this
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