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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Underwear | ||
3 | genre: prose | ||
4 | |||
5 | project: | ||
6 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
7 | css: paul | ||
8 | order: 3 | ||
9 | next: | ||
10 | - title: Dream | ||
11 | link: dream | ||
12 | - title: Wallpaper | ||
13 | link: wallpaper | ||
14 | previous: | ||
15 | - title: Hymnal | ||
16 | link: hymnal | ||
17 | - title: Treatise | ||
18 | link: treatise | ||
19 | ... | ||
20 | |||
21 | He dropped the penny in the dryer, turned it on, and turned around. "What" he | ||
22 | called upstairs, pretending not to hear his mother's question over the noise | ||
23 | of the dryer. He had heard her ask "Could you bring up my underwear from the | ||
24 | dryer" but didn't want to touch her underwear any more than he had to. "I | ||
25 | don't want to bring up your underwear" he said to himself, and walked back | ||
26 | upstairs as his mother was calling down again for her underwear. | ||
27 | |||
28 | "Did you get them" she asked when he opened the basement door to the kitchen. | ||
29 | She was sitting at the table playing dominoes. "Get what" he asked. She | ||
30 | peered at him and said "my underwear." | ||
31 | |||
32 | "Oh I didn't see them" he answered. He reflexively opened the refrigerator, | ||
33 | reflexively bent down, reflexively tried to feign non-disappointment | ||
34 | (appointment? he thought) at seeing the same disappointing empty pickle jar, | ||
35 | old head of lettuce, crusty mayonnaise he'd seen already on the way down to | ||
36 | switch his laundry over. "Paul" she said in that way that means Look at me. | ||
37 | Paul looked at her. | ||
38 | |||
39 | "You had to get them out of the dryer to put your clothes in. Where did you | ||
40 | put them?" | ||