Audience Hesitation - edit 3, title change 2

[dukealien]

edit2;

Story Hesitation


You want to know before
the movie starts,
the novel draws you in,
not as a spoiler, YouTube™ clip
or liner note
(that would be cheating)–

nor need you foreknow
if there will be shooting,
flames, defeat, romantic interludes,
partings and reunions,
degradation, even loss of limbs:

no, what you need to know
(what all consumers want to know
before we grow attached)
is if they leave as lovers.

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Many thanks to all the critics.  I've tried to address each suggestion, including a title change.  This may not be the final title.

The reason for singular "reunion" in earlier versions was rather juvenile:  I didn't want to end the line with an "s" when the following line began with one ("stress").    Removing "stress" eliminates the need to switch back and forth between plurals and a collective noun (though "degradation" is that).