Doesn't
Really
Want
An
Operation
and
Other
Lies
from
North Country Girl |
I agree with anon, who wrote here "..lies are not as complicated as the truth."
The lies in my life are banal and nasty, used as a defense against banal nasty
people who wouldn't believe, or couldn't take, the truth in any of its beautiful forms. I
also agree with the writer who says that the one truth we are left with is kindness.
In that spirit, I offer some of the amazing things in my recent past that are true in
every dimension, that sound like stupid lies:
My dying father really doesn't want an operation, and it's o.k. with me, there are as many
ass-men as tit-men; having a baby isn't frightening or traumatic; when I called in sick
Memorial Day, I was spiking a fever; I really don't get mad at the autistic student who
hits me; I've never seen the X-Files, Ally McBeal, Baywatch, ad nauseum; women like Penn
and Teller and, especially, to all my phone-sex customers- the reason it was always so
good with us is easy to explain- just listen, and tell the truth.With kindness. |
