What's True, or Pangolins
People send me private emails
they believe this is a private
question they want me to tell them
what's true. In other words,
I might tell you that
I saw my friend Sarah
she is drawing a book
with a pangolin
do I really have a friend Sarah
and then, is she
actually drawing pangolins.
They want me to tell them
yes or no.
One day many years
ago I got a postcard for an art show.
The drawing on the card
was beautiful but what I
always respond to
is handwriting. What words
look like. Her words
looked like dancing. So
I called her up years
ago and she came to my office
and last week many more years
had intervened
she and I had lunch
at Fairway Cafe.
Where she told me
about pangolins.
(If the story is good
or good enough
does true matter?)