what happened

you want to know
what happened.
you want to turn
to the last
page
and see how
the story ended.
you want the person
speaking
to get to the point
to stop
stopping
to keep going
straight ahead,
to stop meandering
down back roads
through
the brambles
and thickets of
bad story telling.
get to the point,
tell me what
happened,
you want to scream,
but you don't.
you can see how
much pleasure they
are getting by
dragging out.
milking,
massaging, rambling
on to the point
where you
almost don't care.