Old Stories
Like the lyrics to a favorite song,
half-remembered as we sing along,
the stories that we love the best
and relate with the strongest zest
are those that we have half forgotten–
misplacing details ill-begotten.
Like wrinkles smoothed with Photoshop,
we know where truth is meant to stop.
We smooth the bumps and oil the friction
by sugaring the truth with fiction.
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Memory on the Menu.” Which good memories are better — the recent and vivid ones, or those that time has covered in a sweet haze?

Sweet.
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Thanks, Scott
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So true! Really like the last two lines.
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How so very true. Are they memories or are they stories we’ve made up through the years? Today we’re both thinking about memories ❤
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I adore the photo album pic. The starburst clock in the top left photo is classic. Welcome to the atomic age.
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Amen to that. And smooth it all out with the Glamour Glow filter 🙂
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“sugaring the truth with fiction.” How true… Nicely done!
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This is so true, but there’s money in glamorizing the truth. Just ask James Frey.
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