The Hundred Reasons

Chapter 99 then, finally:

I've never been good
at telling my tale
not without somehow
letting it out
how I fell so deeply
in love with the story
not ever to finish
but starting anew
each day as we speak
each sentence extended
as never to end
and you there just standing
never to leave
and the plot ever-moving
and yet nowhere going
an eternity that
but at least herein waiting
and never quiet done
yet always just ready
to try it again
though without resolution
for no end in itself
will reach satisfaction
the need goes along
the need of not getting
it never quite done
and confined she still waits,
and the trouble alone
was well worth the end,
for we never did make it
let then alone later
to 100 and one.

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