Ed Ahern

Comfortable

I kind of like myself,
psychic warts and all.
There, I’ve said it.
No one more comfortable
to be with than me.
The sins I haven’t forgiven
I’ve learned to tolerate.
Like an old sweater
with moth holes and stains
that suits me just fine.

Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had four hundred stories and poems published so far, and six books. Ed works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories, where he sits on the review board and manages a posse of nine review editors. He’s also lead editor at The Scribes Micro Fiction magazine.