Article voiceover
I’ve been thinking
about why I write
why you write too
what we hope will happen
with our imperfect sentences
with the story we told
with the story we’ll tell
about a woman named Delores
unlike any other woman named Delores
she loves life in a way
that has to do with handsome men and butterflies
she plays the spoons
wears leopardskin pajamas
even in hospice
she puts her lipstick on
I write because of Delores
and because life is always
stories we don’t know
until we write them down.
So moving and so true.
I write to survive. It's as simple as that. Thank God for pen and paper.