The Painter of the Night

Someone called in a report
that she had seen

a man

painting

in the dark

over by the pond. A police car

was dispatched

to go

investigate. The two officers with their big flashlights

walked all around

the pond, but found

nothing suspicious.

hatcher was the

younger

of the two, and he said to Johnson, "What do you think

he was pointing?"

Johnson looked bemused

and said, "The dark, stupid. What else could he have been painting?" Hatcher, a little hurt, said, "Frogs

in the Dark, Lily pads in the Dark, Pond in the Dark.

Just as many things exist in the dark

as they do in the light."

Johnson paused,

exasperated.

Then Hatcher added, "I'd like to see them.