whimsy is not truth

Poetic License

poetic license?

what a ridiculous term,

at least in how it’s used

as a “get out of jail” card

if you want to stretch the truth

away from the actual

and toward what you want,

I like it as permission to get more real

than obsession with excessive detail might allow,

“poetic license” should not allow 

whimsy to pretend to truth.

by Henry H. Walker
August 2, ‘18