There is only one story

But the bonding benefits of storytelling only work if you’re good at it. Many of us, even those who tell stories for a living, are not. We repeat stories we’ve told before. We tell tales that don’t have a point. We fail to pay attention to our audience, choosing stories that are inappropriate or ignoring clues that our listener is bored, annoyed or confused. And we don’t know how to edit ourselves, throwing in every detail we find fascinating, no matter how irrelevant.

WSJ

there's only one story

to tell

and I've been telling it

for years

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there's only one person

who can tell it

right

and that's me

*

not you 

nor your therapist

nor your boss

and not your parents

*

the one story

is so good

it can be repeated

endlessly

*

but only by me

and only when 

I feel like it

and you buy me a drink

*

otherwise there are no stories

not in the true sense

there are only 

words strung together

*

meaninglessly

marginally

mundanely

mordantly

*

but I'll give you

a break

here is the One True Story

in a single word:

scrambled eggs