<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=493665" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>That Open-ended Novel...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">is that the way you want to end<br>a story? nothing definite, <br>not the usual one, where the hero stands<br>against the sun<br>and then his lady comes and kisses him<br>and then<br>The End with the matching music<br>that satisfies the heart<br>that justice is served<br>and that once again the good has<br>triumphed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">how did you end our story? <br>you left me hanging upon a cliff<br>and the audience did not see how i fell <br>from a thousand feet<br>and smash my head on the rocks below<br>and how my blood oozed<br>and squirted and<br>make the sea red.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">what kind of writer are you? <br>you left the last page blank.<br>the monitor is anxious and the keys<br>are idle still for hours</div><div style="margin:10px 0">until there was a blackout<br>and the computer's off.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for days the blog is left undecided.<br>for years the last lines waited.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i guess that is how you wanted it<br>very much like life</div><div style="margin:10px 0">individualist, one can make or unmake oneself<br>smashed the little bird<br>or set it free from your hands that hold it<br>there is this will<br>this human will</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and i the actor of your novel<br>must use it now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=493665" data-title="That Open-ended Novel... de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="is that the way you want to end a story? nothing definite, not the usual one, where the hero stands against the sun and then his lady comes and kisses him and then The End with the matching music that satisfies the heart that justice is served an..."></div> </div> </div>

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