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2title: Underwear
3id: underwear
4genre: prose
5
6project:
7 title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
8 class: paul
9 order: 3
10 next:
11 - title: Dream
12 link: dream
13 - title: Wallpaper
14 link: wallpaper
15 prev:
16 - title: Hymnal
17 link: hymnal
18 - title: Treatise
19 link: treatise
20...
21
22He dropped the penny in the dryer, turned it on, and turned around.
23"What" he called upstairs, pretending not to hear his mother's [question][] over the noise of the dryer.
24He 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.
25"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.
26
27"Did you get them" she asked when he opened the basement door to the kitchen.
28She was sitting at the table playing [dominoes][].
29"Get what" he asked.
30She peered at him and said "my underwear."
31
32"Oh I didn't see them" he answered.
33He 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.
34"Paul" she said in that way that means [Look at me][].
35Paul [looked at her][].
36
37"You had to get them out of the dryer to put your clothes in.
38Where did you put them?"
39
40[question]: exasperated.html
41[dominoes]: phone.html
42[crusty mayonnaise]: riptide_memory.html
43[looked at her]: angeltoabraham.html
44[Look at me]: found-typewriter-poem.html