when i tell you my story
there will be discrepancies
in my account.
don’t ask me
to verify my life
by giving you statistics.
that is like
trying to use science
to validate religion,
it robs the world of mystery
and makes me into a sequence of milestones
rather than a human being.
© 2025 Bruno Talerico
Stafford challenge 280/365.
Desert Dweller 