Explaining Fiction to Relatives

EXPLAINING FICTION TO RELATIVES

 

We were not them.

They were not there.

That name was used on another face.

That didn't happen.

We never did that.

I didn't ever go in that place.

 

She was not nice.

He was not bad.

That man was seldom so good and kind.

Things were better,

The days more dull.

Look for that and you'll never find.

 

It wasn't like that.

That wasn't the spot.

That certainly never happened then.

He was not killed;

She isn't dead;

But now, forever, they're who and when.

 

--August 31, 2016