It All
Comes
Down to
_____________
The blanks will always be there,
no matter how we fill them in.
Convenient openings in a tight situation?
Dangerous expanses where the right choice
can just wander off and disappear?
Either way,
we can park a significance there,
but we can't leave it overnight.

The story opens
to let you in
and you follow it down every line.
Eventually
all the
implications
are backed
into a corner.



This is the place.



  The sense
is on the table.



But don't even tell your wife that ______________________.
Otherwise
it may slip away behind the explanation,
and you can never know the same thing twice.
The Truth
comes a different way each time
with its entourage
    of hangers-on and legmen
and nothing we can say will change that.
But there's always a chance
or two
at a place in History's daydreams.
So, just for the record, ______________________.
.