By Ben Fetterman
It’s amazing how much tastes vary person to person.
How one person can chow down on a meal without flinching,
That would send another running for a glass of milk due to spiciness.
How one person’s ideal beer
Will be spit out immeadiatly by another.
One man’s dream girl
Would be imeadiately passed on by another,
And the same goes for girls with guys.
Even between siblings
There can be a remarkable diveristy in tastes,
In music,
Food,
And friends.
By Ben Fetterman
Singles Awareness Day.
St. Valentine’s Day.
It’s a day about eating your sorrows away with chocolate.
It’s a day about celebrating love.
Having a drink to forget the pain.
Sharing a drink with the one you love.
It’s amazing how much our view of this day
Hinges on someone else.
But it also helps put into perspective
How much of our lives and efforts we put into finding that special someone.
And how,
When we’re right about it,
It can makes us better people,
Acting on a higher purpose.
But when it goes wrong,
We can become our worst,
Most base animalistic selves.
Love is a very powerful emotion.
So treat it with respect.
By Ben Fetterman
It is strange how aging works,
Especially in a legal sense.
How one day, if I were to have a drink
With a certain alcohol content,
I could end up fined and in counselling.
But if I wait until the next day,
Which happens to be my birthday,
I could go to the police station
And down a fifth of whiskey,
And face no repercussions.
By Ben Fetterman
A day and half
Of solid cramming.
Weeks of class.
Pages upon pages of homework.
All comes down to these
17 questions,
To be completed in 1 hour,
To show we learned everything that was taught
Over the past month.
By Ben Fetterman
Ok, I got this.
I see one thing I can do for this problem.
I understand where to go.
Crap. That doesn’t work.
Time to try again.
Why is this so complicated.
It just worked when I did the pieces of it earlier.
I could do all of them fine.
Why is it when I try
To apply what I understand
Everything falls apart.
By Ben Fetterman
Was my nose always like that?
Caught an elbow to the nose,
And now look in the mirror and wonder,
Is it swollen?
Did it always look a little lopsided
Or is my nose now actually
Crooked?
By Ben Fetterman
You wake up and check the weather.
20 degrees Fahrenheit outside.
Forgot to check then wind.
Step outside,
Scarfless and thin gloved.
Only to realize that thanks to gusty conditions,
It’s really more like 0 out.
Just when you had thought winter had mellowed out briefly,
You get killed by
Windchill
By Ben Fetterman
Ok, class tomorrow at 9.
Need to get up at 8.
Wake up, check time.
Shoot, it’s 8:55.
Oh well,
Guess I’ll just
Go back to sleep instead.
By Ben Fetterman
Step
Step
Every time you step,
Whether you see it or not,
You leave behind a trace.
Whether it’s a smear in some wet grass,
Or some dead skin cells on a dry sidewalk,
No matter where we go,
We always leave behind
Footprints
By Ben Fetterman
“Oh, crap”
You remember your exam is today
And this class has a bad rap
For making those who don’t study pay
You get the exam and the first question screams that it’s a trap
As it seems so straight forward, which it may,
But more likely it’s meant to cause you pain.
“Oh well, at least I’ll know this stuff when I take this class again”
Tilting Bolt 