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Chapter 14

I love American history

but it is much older

than I am

 

I enjoy

reading about it

despite not having been there

for most of it

 

He or she

who writes history

is a writer of mystery

armed with a fistful

of facts

jigsaw-puzzled together

and glued over

with the author's lust

to make

the New York Times

best-seller list

 

The mystery holds water

wetted by

the author's glibness

and gusto for fictional interludes

that are never labelled

as such

But if it is a matter

of my personal history,

a fictional prelude

morphs into melodies

 

I have no idea what that means

but I like the sound

of it

 

Said 

Mr. No One In Particular

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Chapter 15  

 

I got to where I am

by not being

anywhere else

And I have yet to meet

a person

for whom

that wasn't true

 

"Approximations of the truth"

is another name

for those fictional interludes

 

No word in the English language

has more synonyms

than the word

HELP

 

Many of those synonyms

are not even words, per se:

Body language speaks louder

than most words

Very very few words

in the English language

have more synonyms

than the word

TRUTH

Approximately

The best friend 

of the Truth

is

THE LIE

Without it,

the Truth would have

no place to hide

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The next chapter

is  here

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