Night & Day Poetic Prose Contest

eh? (entry for contest: July / 2015 [word count: 1148]

Stumbles in looking like a jerry lewis skit and trips over an untied shoelace.
Readjusts reading glasses (that double as writing glasses) discovers with dismay
that they need more scotch tape on the left temple (or is it the right?)
clears throat and queries shyly:
"Hello?
Anybody here?"
Echoes.
Mutters to himself,
"Yow! It's 3 in the morning!
...........but I wanted to be early, Hate missing deadlines."
Leans against the table.
Knocks over a chair.
Clatter.
More echoes.....echoes....echoes...........................

"They're going to be mad at me for not knowing how to do a word count,
I just know it."

Ahem:
Contest entry:

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Wipes it twice with sleeve, blows on it and wipes again for good measure.
Places it tentatively on the table..........
ties shoelace.
Exits left.
(or was that right?)

Goodnight!
(ight........ight..........ight.....)








Captain Midnight
Just let me laugh when it's funny
and when it's sad, let me cry