Turning pages

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I want this life to be neat and tidy

A book with all of its chapters written

So I can skip ahead to see the resolution

(Because I am impatient like that sometimes.)

Even a table of contents

Would be helpful,

With titles clearly showing

The trajectory of the tale.

I don’t always like this reading along

The plodding narrative that builds up

All

Too

Slowly.

And yet, habitual peeper at pages that I am,

There is a loss of some indefinable delight,

The endless possibility of all that just might be,

When I'm reading towards an end already known.