TWO STORIES OF THE DAY

PRETEND VISITOR

We stood out on the porch before we
went inside & she told me her secret.
Pretend you're just visiting, she said.
That way you'll forget that they're
family.

WISE

A lot of people have asked me how I got
to be so wise, he said, & I never had an
easy answer, so most of them left
convinced they'd made a mistake.

From StoryPeople here and here.