Happily-ever-after
mythology
prefaces every sequel
continuing
character-driven sagas
story arc only
tacking an index onto
volume one,
three, sixteen in a set
having read this scene
repeatedly
life movies
annotated script
writing, rewriting books
they were based on
playing
déjà vu-all-over-again
never more than
countless times
here-we-go-again
monotony of
changing times
changing directors
same cast of characters
different roles
replaced actors
haven’t-I-
seen-this-show-before?
Exit, stage right
enter stage left
either or,
vice versa
prefacing intermission
act one ends…
next!
time to regroup, recast
strike the set
endings are simply
ellipsis
masquerading
as comfort
to the ill-at-ease
– Mark L. Lucker
© 2016
Ponderable polemics, poetic 