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2 | title: Window | ||
3 | genre: prose | ||
4 | |||
5 | id: window | ||
6 | toc: "Window" | ||
7 | |||
8 | project: | ||
9 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
10 | class: paul | ||
11 | order: 18 | ||
12 | next: | ||
13 | - title: Question | ||
14 | link: question | ||
15 | - title: Writing | ||
16 | link: writing | ||
17 | prev: | ||
18 | - title: Tapestry | ||
19 | link: tapestry | ||
20 | - title: Wallpaper | ||
21 | link: wallpaper | ||
22 | ... | ||
23 | |||
24 | _**[HYMN 386: JOKES][]**_ | ||
25 | |||
26 | _"[Tell us a joke][]" everyone asks of the clown. | ||
27 | He sits on a log and begins to think. | ||
28 | Everyone waits gap-mouthed in anticipation. | ||
29 | A slight breeze ruffles the clown's coat, his pompom buttons, [his bright red hair][]. | ||
30 | His nose becomes redder in the cold. | ||
31 | Hours pass. | ||
32 | All but the most dedicated of joke listeners leave him to rot ~~for all they may care~~._ | ||
33 | |||
34 | _The clown opens his mouth to speak but no words come out. | ||
35 | A tear falls down his cheek, and another. | ||
36 | He begins to sob. | ||
37 | The last joke listener comes over to comfort him. | ||
38 | She puts a hand on his shoulder. | ||
39 | He looks up at her, red face, red nose, white lips, and says ~~"Thank you."~~ | ||
40 | He vanishes from the clearing. | ||
41 | The last joke listener sits on the log and looks up at the sky. | ||
42 | [The moon is full.][] | ||
43 | The world creaks on its axis._ | ||
44 | |||
45 | Paul looked up to the space on the wall where a window should be. | ||
46 | The shadow of his face wavered in the candle light. | ||
47 | He looked back down at the card he'd been writing on. | ||
48 | He read the card. | ||
49 | He crossed out the _for all they may care_ in the first paragraph, and _"Thank you"_ from the second one. | ||
50 | "[What could he say][]" he thought to himself. | ||
51 | "What could he possibly say to her." | ||
52 | He went outside to clear his head with a cigarette. | ||
53 | He took his axe with him this time. | ||
54 | |||
55 | [Tell us a joke]: joke.html | ||
56 | [HYMN 386: JOKES]: hymnal.html | ||
57 | [his bright red hair]: ronaldmcdonald.html | ||
58 | [The moon is full.]: moon-drowning.html | ||
59 | [What could he say]: elegyforanalternateself.html | ||