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20 | 20 | ||
21 | _**HYMN 386: JOKES**_ | 21 | _**HYMN 386: JOKES**_ |
22 | 22 | ||
23 | _"Tell us a joke" everyone asks of the clown. He sits on a log and begins to | 23 | _"Tell us a joke" everyone asks of the clown. |
24 | think. Everyone waits gap-mouthed in anticipation. A slight breeze ruffles | 24 | He sits on a log and begins to think. |
25 | the clown's coat, his pompom buttons, his bright red hair. His nose becomes | 25 | Everyone waits gap-mouthed in anticipation. |
26 | redder in the cold. Hours pass. All but the most dedicated of joke listeners | 26 | A slight breeze ruffles the clown's coat, his pompom buttons, his bright red hair. |
27 | leave him to rot ~~for all they may care~~._ | 27 | His nose becomes redder in the cold. |
28 | Hours pass. | ||
29 | All but the most dedicated of joke listeners leave him to rot ~~for all they may care~~._ | ||
28 | 30 | ||
29 | _The clown opens his mouth to speak but no words come out. A tear falls down | 31 | _The clown opens his mouth to speak but no words come out. |
30 | his cheek, and another. He begins to sob. The last joke listener comes over | 32 | A tear falls down his cheek, and another. |
31 | to comfort him. She puts a hand on his shoulder. He looks up at her, red | 33 | He begins to sob. |
32 | face, red nose, white lips, and says ~~"Thank you."~~ He vanishes from the | 34 | The last joke listener comes over to comfort him. |
33 | clearing. The last joke listener sits on the log and looks up at the sky. | 35 | She puts a hand on his shoulder. |
34 | The moon is full. The world creaks on its axis._ | 36 | He looks up at her, red face, red nose, white lips, and says ~~"Thank you."~~ |
37 | He vanishes from the clearing. | ||
38 | The last joke listener sits on the log and looks up at the sky. | ||
39 | The moon is full. | ||
40 | The world creaks on its axis._ | ||
35 | 41 | ||
36 | Paul looked up to the space on the wall where a window should be. The shadow | 42 | Paul looked up to the space on the wall where a window should be. |
37 | of his face wavered in the candle light. He looked back down at the card he'd | 43 | The shadow of his face wavered in the candle light. |
38 | been writing on. He read the card. He crossed out the _for all they may | 44 | He looked back down at the card he'd been writing on. |
39 | care_ in the first paragraph, and _"Thank you"_ from the second one. "What | 45 | He read the card. |
40 | could he say" he thought to himself. "What could he possibly say to her." He | 46 | He crossed out the _for all they may care_ in the first paragraph, and _"Thank you"_ from the second one. |
41 | went outside to clear his head with a cigarette. He took his axe with him | 47 | "What could he say" he thought to himself. |
42 | this time. | 48 | "What could he possibly say to her." |
49 | He went outside to clear his head with a cigarette. | ||
50 | He took his axe with him this time. | ||