i shall write a poem
and call it "the single story"
and in it there will be only plot
(characters being too messy)
and it will move rapidly
from point a to point b and
employ lots of verbs
and at the end of it
readers will shake their heads
in wonderment, dazed,
and think how silly it has been
all these years
to read emotions,
when there is pure motion to be had.