From the book:
“All of my lies are true”
In today’s day and age you might think a saying like that was attributed to “45” or Putin. In my Father’s day he might have imagined it was Jack Benny or Groucho Marx. When I was growing up I could easily have credited Casey Stengel or Yogi Berra.
Now that I have grandchildren, I have begun to embrace my inner Seanchaí. I am become “the keeper of words.” What I have sown in my springtime, I am reaping in my autumn. I have come to cuddle with these warm words, on a cold night by the fireside.
When the wood crackles and the mind travels, a story tells itself. Truth, stretches to reveal something new. I have learned to follow each lie where ever it may lead in search of its truth.
“All of my lies are true?”
~
You must grow your self
No matter how tall your parent
Time, is the story teller.
Mark W. Ó Brien has been widely published at home and abroad. He is an alumnus of the Blackwater International
Poetry Festival. This is his fourth poetry collection.
My Childhood Appropriated
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Mark W. O’Brien
