I’m in
the process of putting together another collection of short stories. One of the motives behind this collection is
that I have a bunch of stories that I posted on some websites that are no
longer around. While going through these
stories to see which ones I could use for the collection, I came across this
one which, given everything going on in the world today, is probably more relevant
than when I posted it in March of 2014.
“The
Point”
Lowering
the page, Karen gave a confused look to her girlfriend Sue. “Seriously?” she asked.
“What?”
Sue replied.
Setting
the page on the desk, Karen stated, “There’s revolutions, and bombings, and ...
and the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, and a million other huge
things going on in the world and,” she picked up the page and finished, “you
write a poem about a toothache?”
Sue
smiled. “Yes there are momentous, Earth
shaking events going on right now, and all the wannabe poets are writing bland
poetry about them. Few are trying to
write decent poetry about little, everyday things.”
“Like
toothaches?”
Sue
stood and walked over to Karen and put her hands on her shoulders. “Answer this question honestly: is it a good
poem?”
Karen
scanned over the page. Setting it back
down, she gave a bit of a smile and said, “Yes.”
“Well,
isn’t that what’s important?” Sue chuckled, then kissed Karen.
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Update. It took way longer than I had hoped, but in
October 2023 I finally published The Uncapped Pen, which contains this
story.
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