The Best Storyteller Poem by Randy McClave

The best storyteller that there is
Better than any actor there is in show biz,
Better than any country singer singing a sad song
Singing how life has done him so very wrong.
Better than any speaking politician
Who's on his own declared fact finding mission,
And better than any elementary school teacher
Or any hell speaking preacher.
Better than any beggar upon the street
Speaking about how poverty he did meet,
Even better than the proud parent who has a story to say
Or the fisherman telling how the big one got away.
Better than any person speaking to a cop
Why they were speeding or why they didn't stop,
Better than an ex-sports figure telling his uplifting story
Of dreams then of pain and suffering, and then of glory.
No one tells a story any better
Even the person speaking or pleading as a debtor,
No one can spread on more sugar or honey
Than someone who needs to borrow some money.

Randy L. McClave