Story

We walk around like the planet saturn
with our story stretching out,
a ring around us,
to link with one another.

The terrible thing,
to tell a story
no one believes
or listens to.

Success is story.

Tell the story.
Sell the story.
Lie yourself to true.
Revise the story
until listeners grow rapt.

Without a story
you will die young.

There is no you,
no flesh,
without a good story.

I’ve sat across from people
who didn’t buy my story
and I did not exist.

I’ve sat across from people
who believed my story,
and it’s thrilling.

We carry too much
to ever abandon
our declared death
of loneliness
but we feel life,
and rejoice in others,
with stories
that  are more
than what we were
yesterday.