16). The Way People Want to Read Fiction

The way people want to read fiction;
Take it away from him;
He could be one of those characters;
Would have been able to play off of it;
Get into a fight and get the gossip people going;
He resents it more, maybe.
I don't know if he doesn't understand it.
He likes his family;
They couldn't say an undercurrent of brother and brother.

I think he couldn't believe that they'd wanted that much out of him.
I don't know how he came to terms with it;
It's not as free form as separate;
When other people have great ideas for you to live.
That's why he's been so quiet.
He thought he had a winner.

You deliberate across events with each other.
I couldn't believe they'd deny reality to that point;
What‘s next; no way.
How could you choose at times?
You'd have to wonder about today;
Is it any different out there today?
End up with an afterwards
Created in a mind.


"The Way People Want to Read Fiction," poem sixteen of "Lettersongs,"
unpublished work © 2008, Lisa Page Weil.  All rights reserved.