When The Merry Widow Met the Jolly Rancher

Glove and Circle, sketch, 8 1/2 X 11”, Magic Marker, October 8, 2024. Photo by author.

MW: I don’t have to answer the bell, I am the bell.

JR: And yet the question remains, do you have to make something look like something it is?

MW: Well, I can’t imagine writing a short story. I mean, how would it possibly begin? With a question mark?

JR: You could begin with the question, What if there had been only one Righteous Brother?

MW: That’s Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus…”The procession of thought is often a gaseous medium…”

JR: O, that’s just another bunch of very short, stories written by an old writer dying and writing about it until he finally does die.

MW: A sense of humor is requisite.

JR: Well, at the very least you have to make yourself laugh!