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 disbatched 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 painting?" 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. Hell, I might even buy one. Maybe there's more out there than we know. We are the
police, after all.
We need to know."