Propaganda

by Roger Stoll / September 18th, 2022

The story I will tell you is not true.
The story I will tell you is not a story.
The story I will tell you begins at the end,
And ends at the beginning.
The story I will tell you is of your own life,
But it is not about you.
The story I will tell you is one you have never heard,
And do not know,
But it is one you have told yourself a thousand times.
The story I will tell you is of your own death,
But not the one you will die.
The story I will tell you is the story of all stories,
But it is not the story.
The story I will tell you is a lie,
If only you will believe it.
The story I will tell you
Is not the story I will tell you.
The story I will tell you…
The story I will tell…
The story…

Roger Stoll lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and has published articles, book reviews and political poetry in Black Agenda Report, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Internationalist 360, Jewschool, Marxism-Leninism Today, MintPress News, MRonline, New Verse News, Orinoco Tribune, Popular Resistance, Resumen Latinoamericano, San Francisco Examiner, and ZNet. Read other articles by Roger.

This article was posted on Sunday, September 18th, 2022 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.