The Narrator's Tale 

I am the narrator of this story

About the rise and fall of Banker Bill.

But the sun shone out so full of glory

I left his tale to travel vale and hill. 

Free from the bonds of narrative structure

Without a protagonist or bad guy,

I lived my own life beyond the juncture,

To find love, settle down, and multiply. 

A happy man was I for many years

A home and family inked a new page;

Blessed with a long full life of joys and tears,

I escaped life in the narrator cage. 

I lie in bed at peace with this proud path

As Banker Bill strangles me in his wrath.