A READER WANTS TO KNOW….
THE ART OF THE REAL
“Would you explain your writing to me?”
“Certainly — I write what I see.”
“So, what you see is what you say?”
“In my mind, I see it that way.”
“But things aren’t always what they seem.”
“In that case, I write what I dream.”
“Pray, how to tell the two apart?”
“Some might say, therein’s the art.”
“Then, that’s the art — to part the two?”
“No, that’s the part that’s up to you.”
“Up to me? But you’re the writer!”
“Truth be told, aren’t you the decider?”
Lisa R. Palmer 7:08 am on March 12, 2018 Permalink |
Brilliant!! Absolutely brilliant! Love this… 😀
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mistermuse 8:30 am on March 12, 2018 Permalink |
Thank you for that “dream” comment, Lisa. 🙂
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Lisa R. Palmer 11:04 pm on March 12, 2018 Permalink
It’s absolutely true, and real, offered in daylight by a conscious, enthusiastic fan… (who also happens to believe that dreams are often real as well – lol!)
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mistermuse 12:03 am on March 13, 2018 Permalink
Much appreciated, Lisa….and to show that “dream” comment was meant as a compliment, here’s a little ditty for the dreamer in us:
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scifihammy 7:41 am on March 12, 2018 Permalink |
Clever – and entertaining 🙂
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mistermuse 8:35 am on March 12, 2018 Permalink |
I never thought of myself as “entertaining,” scifi, but there’s a first time for everything….
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scifihammy 9:41 am on March 12, 2018 Permalink
🙂
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arekhill1 10:18 am on March 12, 2018 Permalink |
Nice set of rhymed couplets you have there, Sr. Muse.
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mistermuse 11:33 am on March 12, 2018 Permalink |
That’s “The Art of the Real,” Ricardo. Eat your heart out, Donald (“The Art of the Deal”) Trump.
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thelonelyauthorblog 11:11 am on March 12, 2018 Permalink |
This is brilliant. Bravo.
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Don Frankel 5:16 pm on March 12, 2018 Permalink |
Muse earlier this year I had a thought in a similar vein and that happened when I realized I didn’t know anything. It was quite a moment because I’d been walking around for six decades and I didn’t know anything. I only thought i did.
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mistermuse 9:21 pm on March 12, 2018 Permalink |
Don, count yourself fortunate to have been walking around for only six decades and not knowing anything — I’ve been walking around for over seven with the same disability. But at least we know what we don’t know….which is more than can be said of a certain President of the United States.
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Don Frankel 6:11 am on March 13, 2018 Permalink |
Muse full disclosure here as someone from my old neighborhood told me that a young Donald Trump used to come into Karl’s Lunchoenette where I worked as a teenager and that I used to make him milkshakes, vanilla by the way. I would have disclosed this before but I just didn’t remember.
Also pointed out to me is that we played baseball against him. I thought he grew up about a mile from our neighborhood but it seems it was a lot closer than that more like a half a mile or even less. But that all makes Donald Trump my friend. That’s the way things worked in Queens back in the 1960’s, Sorry to disappoint.
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mistermuse 8:38 am on March 13, 2018 Permalink |
No problem, Don. I simply can’t abide the way Trump treats people and believes “it’s all about him” — but I guess friendship trumps everything (pardon the pun)….although the way you define (for want of a better word) friendship seems to me a bit of a stretch, considering that it’s strictly a one-way street. I always thought of friendship as a reciprocal relationship.
Don, I like to think of you as a friend, so I hope you don’t mind my telling you how I see it. I certainly appreciate your telling me how you see it.
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Don Frankel 11:51 am on March 13, 2018 Permalink |
Muse, when you make someone a Milkshake, they leave you a tip, especially the rich kids from Jamaica Estates so it was reciprocal. But I don’t only have friends who agree with me. That’s boring. My late wife and I agreed on practically nothing but we didn’t have angry arguments we just disagreed and had fun doing it.
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mistermuse 1:55 pm on March 13, 2018 Permalink |
Don, since I wasn’t a rich kid, I probably wouldn’t have left a tip if I bought a milkshake from you, so I hate to think that could’ve cost us a friendship. But I mostly agree with the rest of your comment, especially when it comes to politics. Too bad Trump doesn’t see it that way — at least, I assume he doesn’t, or he wouldn’t mock those who disagree with him.
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moorezart 3:09 pm on March 21, 2018 Permalink |
Reblogged this on From 1 Blogger 2 Another.
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mistermuse 3:17 pm on March 21, 2018 Permalink |
Truth be told, this writer is glad you decided to re-blog this. Thank you!
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moorezart 5:17 pm on March 21, 2018 Permalink
truth be told this reader is glad you write. Such a delightful trip you take us on.
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