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+title: Underwear
+genre: prose
+
+id: underwear
+toc: "Underwear"
+
+project:
+    title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
+    class: paul
+    order: 3
+    next:
+    - title: Dream
+      link: dream
+    - title: Wallpaper
+      link: wallpaper
+    prev:
+    - title: Hymnal
+      link: hymnal
+    - title: Treatise
+      link: treatise
+...
+
+He dropped the penny in the dryer, turned it on, and turned around.
+"What" he called upstairs, pretending not to hear his mother's [question][] over the noise of the dryer.
+He had heard her ask "Could you bring up my underwear from the dryer" but didn't want to touch her underwear any more than he had to.
+"I don't want to bring up your underwear" he said to himself, and walked back upstairs as his mother was calling down again for her underwear.
+
+"Did you get them" she asked when he opened the basement door to the kitchen.
+She was sitting at the table playing [dominoes][].
+"Get what" he asked.
+She peered at him and said "my underwear."
+
+"Oh I didn't see them" he answered.
+He reflexively opened the refrigerator, reflexively bent down, reflexively tried to feign non-disappointment (appointment? he thought) at seeing the same disappointing empty pickle jar, old head of lettuce, [crusty mayonnaise][] he'd seen already on the way down to switch his laundry over.
+"Paul" she said in that way that means [Look at me][].
+Paul [looked at her][].
+
+"You had to get them out of the dryer to put your clothes in.
+Where did you put them?"
+
+[question]: exasperated.html
+[dominoes]: phone.html
+[crusty mayonnaise]: riptide_memory.html
+[looked at her]: angeltoabraham.html
+[Look at me]: found-typewriter-poem.html