Uncle History and the Storytellers

Someone is out to fool you
Uncle History knows all the someones
For instance he knew the boy
Who used to ring Strindberg’s doorbell
And hid in the bushes
August thought it was a ghost
In general storytellers are the easiest marks
Also when the facts are too plain
You can trick almost anyone
JFK wasn’t killed by a chinless psycho
It was (insert anyone)
Yes someone is out to fool you
This is why Uncle darns his own socks
And his wife darns hers
In an adjoining room
The boy who fooled Strindberg
Lived to be quite old
But he had holes in his socks

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Author: stevekuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University

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