What is the story we are living versus what is the story we are being told and what is the story we are telling ourselves?

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Right before intermission,
After a long story about a land
Where people sold their dreams
To a company that made movies
Out of their dreams that the people
Spent all their money to watch,

He began to tell a scary story.
We were all too scared to move.
His words alarmed us.
Our hair stood on end.
One woman's hair stood up
Halfway to the ceiling.

Suddenly he fell silent and looked contrite
And thoughtful.
He said:
When my wife and I got married
We were very poor.
We got married in our house.

We couldn't afford a musician,
But we wanted a song
That would express our joy
And our love, so we decided
To ask everyone to sing
The only song we could think of that everyone knew.

Now, if you will indulge me,
We will sing that song together.
And then there will be an intermission.
Then he started to softly sing,
Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream,

Merrily
Merrily,
Merrily,
Merrily,
Life is but a dream.
And after a few rounds

With everyone singing softly
And sweetly,
Imagining the storyteller and his wife
At their wedding,
It became all about rowing and rowing and rowing
Down the stream of our lives,

While far away,
We could just make out the storyteller's voice
Faintly repeating,
Row, row, row,
Row, row, row,
Row, row, row. . .

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Authors Website: https://garylindorff.wordpress.com

Authors Bio:

Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and a memoir, "Finding Myself in Time: Facing the Music". Lindorff calls himself an activist poet, channeling his activism through poetic voice. He also writes with other voices in other poetic styles: ecstatic, experimental and performance and a new genre, sand-blasted poems where he randomly picks sentence fragments from books drawn from his library, lists them, divides them into stanzas and looks for patterns. Sand-blasted poems are meant to be performed aloud with musical accompaniment.


He is a practicing dream worker(with a strong, Jungian background) and a shamanic practitioner. His shamanic work is continually deepening his partnership with the land. This work can assume many forms, solo and communal, among them: prayer, vision questing, ritual sweating, and sharing stories by the fire. He is a born-pacifist and attempts to walk the path of non-violence believing that no war is necessary or inevitable.