I
first read this Russell Edson back in 1988 and the imagery and the dark
and light feeling tone of the prose poem has remained with me all these
years.
THE LONELY EVENINGS OF DOCTOR FUNNYPERSON
Doctor Funnyperson likes bathroom furniture. For chairs he has toilets. His house looks like a public bathroom.
Lately
the lonely Doctor Funnyperson is spending the evenings flushing his
toilets, even as he studies the problem, why it is he would like to hurt
someone.
Meanwhile, he occupies the lonely evenings flushing his toilets one by one . . .
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