Christopher Hansard:[Ripley's Believe It or Not]

A wise man went on holiday after getting too

wind blown on top of his mountain

and went into a Ripley’s Believe It or Not outlet

and he wandered through all the attractions

he came back to the start again and added a few of his own,

with neat handwriting on small cards

one card read

‘People are attracted to panic and confusion-believe it or not’

and another said

‘ Everything comes back to us-believe it or not’

another placed on a shelf read

‘Who is it that is reading this card,maybe, it’s not who you think it is-believe it or not’

and he placed a few more around, the last one he placed near a vending machine

and it said,

‘You are not what you buy-believe it not’

and walked off to see a museum of natural history

where he thought a few more cards might be in order

did he have the right to do that, to place all those cards

around the attractions?

People often believe that their opinions are facts-believe it or not

and that nearly everything we are taught or believe

about ourselves,others and everything else

is just an opinion-believe it or not

very few things are facts

the world in which you live is an opinion

believe it-or not