As the story unfolds
November Road
Proceeds at a measured pace; bending to and fro
Two hundred ninety-nine pages and 33 chapters later
We understand why death and love are the great emancipators
Frank Guidry was a kept man indeed
He worked hard to meet his employers every need
Frank overestimated his employers loyalty
When he deemed Frank expendable; a mere liability
The word went out; people took sides
Most were scared and wouldn't risk their lives
Frank went on the lamb; hitting a stream of small towns
Carlos pull made it hard for Frank to truly go to ground
He met a lady on the road stranded with her kids
Escaping an incorrigible husband who only offered counterbids
As luck would have it their meeting was coincidence at best
How felicitous for them both that Frank was heading West
Seraphine pulls Paul Barone's strings
Because he manages to a make a mess of things
Cat (Barone) and mouse (Guidry) are both at play
Cat suddenly deadpans then mouse scampers away
As Charlotte (lady) absconds with the children and dog
Guidry suddenly erects a mental travelogue
Barone lucked up on a tip
When a clerk gave him lip
But Seraphine clocked that Barone was made
A waitress remembered the sunshine and the shade
Barone's mistakes himself for a brand of MacGyver
And executes his young naive driver
Guidry's cover was to be a bachelor no more
His ephemeral coupling with Charlotte was meant as a guarantor
That Frank would fall so deeply in love with Charlotte no one could predict
Would cause him to go boldly before Carlos with a selfless but fair edict
From the beginning to the epilogue I found myself entranced
That their incidental meeting could end in love, liberation, and an intensely unconventional romance
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