I Could Be a Writer Too

I have the best ideas 
I could make a million dollars if I wrote them down
My book would be a best seller for sure!

Great, I told him. What are your ideas?
They are not ready yet, he informed me.
Besides, I am saving them for myself.

Sounds great. Do you write now?
No. 
Why not?
No time.

Now that you are retired, 
Are you going to write those stories?
Not yet. I am still in the thinking stage.

Now that you are in the nursing home,
Here is a journal, so you can begin writing.

Who said I was going to write? 
You did.
Write what?
Your great stories.
What stories?
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