A FEW PAGES IN

A few pages in and already
The plot has been laid out—
We know it will follow either
The expected course, or not,
The well-trodden way of paradox.

And in doing so what we’ll
Get is a description of what
We know already, or could
Easily guess, plus a few
Steps on the psychological side.

Why not leap now to the end—
A poem, not a tedious story—
Why follow the way of all prose
Though the vale of the known
To every expected ending?