The angry storyteller

"So what are we to do? It is time to take back the narrative. Time to tell our stories."

In "A president now unable to explain a narrative," by By Melissa Harris-Perry, CBS News, 14 April 2011

                Look over there! No, don't look here! If you do, oh my, I fear you won't see what I'm pointing at but rather see just where I'm at. Where I'm at might contravene my staging of a well-staged scene.  So look over there, but don't look here!  Or else you'll see my cynical sneer.  Everything's as I say it is, for I shall be your storytelling whiz who cries look there!  No, not here!  Looking here might interfere with looking there, as I demand.  Do it now, else a reprimand will punish you for looking not at exactly what I set as plot.  All comes undone if you would shun how plain are all my tales so spun. The tales I tell are the scenes I sell.  The scenes I sell conjure up a spell.  Mirrors, smoke, each little joke, meant to feed you, and to provoke. Question: are my scenes untrue?   Questioning's a vicious thing to do.  So, look at that!  No more chat!  You must see what I'm pointing at!   Reality can be rude, harsh, unfair; before plain truth tales haven't a prayer.

 

Copyright © 2011 by Gary Bachlund