Endless Openings Open Endings

Whether it's a short or long storyThere should always be a beginning, a middle and an endThat's what I was told at schoolAnd that's what I taught my pupils later onBut now I realiseThat lifeComes and goes at different timesAnd we all just play short cameosIn one long storyThat never seems to start or stopPerhaps each of the storiesIn this book hasNo one beginning, No one middleandNo one end.