the woman with the arctic fox
Dec. 18th, 2016 02:07 pmThere's a woman who wears an arctic fox around her neck, a live one. She goes out walking in snowstorms, and if you pass her, it's the fox that greets you, not the woman. Sometimes it says innocuous things
Some weather we're having
Stay warm
Careful; there's black ice
Other times it tells unsettling jokes with punchlines you can't understand (Did you hear about the man who lost his mind? He was a bellwether, and thirty feasted. Thirty! Hahahaha)
And other times it just makes stray remarks that may be madness or may be prophecy, and if you run to write them down, you find the words have faded, and if you try to put them from your mind, they're all that you can think, a tune with nonsense words you can't escape.
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