the history lessons i received in school
have very little connection to the stories
my grandfather waited until i was 25 to begin telling me
but they do sound like the tv shows and movies
produced as saturday morning serials in his day
and cartoons in mine
which should have made me nervous as a kid
since Neil Armstrong, MLK, WWII, Vietnam,
FDR, Sputnik, food stamps, AIDS,
computers, the Cold War, crack, Coltrane and the Greatest
all changed history between my generation and his
but since there were bright colors and the good guys always won
I tried hard to believe the myths
since what else could be true
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