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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Window | ||
3 | genre: prose | ||
4 | |||
5 | project: | ||
6 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
7 | css: paul | ||
8 | order: 18 | ||
9 | next: | ||
10 | - title: Question | ||
11 | link: question | ||
12 | - title: Writing | ||
13 | link: writing | ||
14 | previous: | ||
15 | - title: Tapestry | ||
16 | link: tapestry | ||
17 | - title: Wallpaper | ||
18 | link: wallpaper | ||
19 | ... | ||
20 | |||
21 | _**HYMN 386: JOKES**_ | ||
22 | |||
23 | _"Tell us a joke" everyone asks of the clown. He sits on a log and begins to | ||
24 | think. Everyone waits gap-mouthed in anticipation. A slight breeze ruffles | ||
25 | the clown's coat, his pompom buttons, his bright red hair. His nose becomes | ||
26 | redder in the cold. Hours pass. All but the most dedicated of joke listeners | ||
27 | leave him to rot ~~for all they may care~~._ | ||
28 | |||
29 | _The clown opens his mouth to speak but no words come out. A tear falls down | ||
30 | his cheek, and another. He begins to sob. The last joke listener comes over | ||
31 | to comfort him. She puts a hand on his shoulder. He looks up at her, red | ||
32 | face, red nose, white lips, and says ~~"Thank you."~~ He vanishes from the | ||
33 | clearing. The last joke listener sits on the log and looks up at the sky. | ||
34 | The moon is full. The world creaks on its axis._ | ||
35 | |||
36 | Paul looked up to the space on the wall where a window should be. The shadow | ||
37 | of his face wavered in the candle light. He looked back down at the card he'd | ||
38 | been writing on. He read the card. He crossed out the _for all they may | ||
39 | care_ in the first paragraph, and _"Thank you"_ from the second one. "What | ||
40 | could he say" he thought to himself. "What could he possibly say to her." He | ||
41 | went outside to clear his head with a cigarette. He took his axe with him | ||
42 | this time. | ||