Upstate Grammar
One of the ways I have been describing life in upstate New York is by talking about the people. The question of What's True and What Isn't True always comes up. It's All True. And of course, It's All Made Up. This is from a group of poems called As Reported by Postmistress Irene.
A writer named Lucy all writers should be Lucy said Irene, she lives up on a hill in a white writerly house well perched, overlooking purple and yellow fields. They must be wildflowers. Two days ago Lucy thought she was dying or else she had severe indigestion. Holly her partner took her to the hospital half an hour away We have to take out your appendix said Doctor Alex. Take out my Table of Contents instead she said.