A failed story is a poem
Buddhist stories end
With what we
Had thought would
Happen not happening
Teacher angered by
Dirty dishes left
In communal sink
Realizes she left
Them there / wisdom
Of embarrassment /
Your story ends
But why it ends
Where it ends
Or began where
It began can’t
Be told / narrator’s
Unreliable and you’re
Dead / need to know
Basis when there’s
Nothing to know
Is all tease
She in jail on five
Counts, including theft
Of your car
Which she drove
To a friend’s
House afterward
A count is number
But not plot
At least not
In the sense
Of story making
Sense of arc
Flat-lined unreadable
To whom story
Is told cannot
Tell it back
Do not ask
It tells for thee
