"My Life as Memoir" Inspired by The Art of Memoir:

My Life as Memoir

My life has been lived

is being lived

will continue for some time

barring a fatal tragedy.

But I don’t know if mine

is a life worth remembering

worth having a memorandum of

worth a told story.

I don’t know that I’ve learned

anything of note

anything someone else has not known

anything others might learn from.

But maybe that doesn’t matter

in a memoir.

Writing my story in prose or verse

is still real

is still valid.

My life has been lived

is being lived

will continue to be lived

regardless of anyone else’s knowledge

of the details I love

the details that make me who I am

the details I may or may never share.


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