Monday, January 15, 2018

storybook, ending

If you were the narrator,
and I was the protagonist,
I bet you'd rig the story
in my favor. To my benefit
- and even risk the story, conflict,
character development, and drama

for my sake,
To make my story happy.
it would take

a miracle:

Intelligent design, a narrator
somewhat unreliable
- unfaithful to
your chosen or appointed
line

of work, you would shirk

all codes
of narrative ethics
to the contrary,

and you'd insert
yourself.

Become a character. But I'd know
in an instant: you already were.

You'd sweep in, snap me up,
describe
the closing of a storybook:

"Happy ever after,
the beginning."

Could be worth a look?

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