Showing I Do Not Understand Flash Fiction (Poem)

A story begins in the middle.

That sentence alone makes my mind seize.

Any beginning is definitionally not a middle.

There can be a backstory.

Indeed there is always a backstory.

Someone must know this.

Otherwise the narrative is a partially connected bridge.

Any steps bring immediate collapse or as you continue, pitch you into the void.

How request writing to bear such burden?

Convince the reader to take this risk?

I lack the courage to ask either

But applaud in wonder others who do!