They went on and suddenly the woods opened upon light, and they had reached the river. Everyone stopped, but Doc talked on ahead as though nothing had happened. ‘Only today,’ he said, ‘today, in October sun, it’s all gold—sky and tree and water. Everything just before it changes looks to be made of gold.’
– Eudora Welty, “The Wide Net” – The Collected Stories
From a Song
Fiction of a Real Life
Fiction of a Real Life
© 2017 J Oscar Bittinger
VERSE 1
Everybody knows something you don’t know
Everybody has some place else to go
You’ve been reading a park bench so you’re
Prepared to write
The Fiction of a Real Life