Friday, October 31, 2025

this one time in band camp

live
long enough, and you'll
accumulate
a lot of ribald stories,
bawdy
tales of youth
and beyond.
many that you've embellished
over the years,
expanded
and changed, honed to a fine
a point.
you've become a modern day,
Red Foxx or
Mark Twain.
you don't even bother
using fake
names anymore,
as you scrawl with your verbal pen,
because most of the characters
in your stories
are long gone.
and they can't correct
a thing.

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