Reply #22: "I will tell you something about stories" -- Silko

[EFerrari]

Ceremony

I will tell you something about stories



They aren’t just entertainment.

Don’t be fooled.

They are all we have, you see,

all we have to fight off illness and death.


　Storyteller
　 　 　
　

You don’t have anything

if you don’t have the stories.
　
　 　 　
　

Their evil is mighty

but it can’t stand up to our stories.

So they try to destroy the stories

let the stories be confused or forgotten.

They would like that

They would be happy

Because we would be defenseless then.
　
　 　 　

Pierre Bonirote's Storyteller　


He rubbed his belly.

I keep them here



Here, put your hand on it

See, it is moving.

There is life here

for the people.
　
　 　 　
　

And in the belly of this story

the rituals and the ceremony

are still growing.

-- Leslie Marmon Silko