Two things I have read recently and loved:
No it is not the true story.
No you never went on the benched ships.
No you never came to the towers of Troy.
Anne Carson
‘The Palinode of Stesichoros by Stesichoros’
in The Autobiograhpy of Red, © Anne Carson/Vintage, 1998
I’m not your totem; I refuse
to dance in your circuses; you cannot carve
my soul in stone.
Margaret Atwood
from ‘The Animals Reject Their Names and Things Return to Their Origins’
in The Tent, © O. W. Toad/Bloomsbury 2006
