Most adventures
when completed
end up being fairly boring:
"I had some trouble at work
but I’m all right now"
or "I thought I had pneumonia
but it turned out I was just allergic
to stupidity."

Someone once said
while talking about the state of stories
that nothing ever ends
which means
that finding the tale
is about telling only the part
that attracts interest.
Who?
Some comic book writer you’d hate
I’d wager.

Anyhow,
recently I thought I might be killed
but I wasn’t
because nothing was really wrong
and I misunderstood his accent.
So
crisis averted.

May I have another scone?