Lummox

Young Hilda Reyes was a manic depressive goose who lived somewhere near the Himalayas. She wrote me often and in her letters, sprinkled with a rotten perfume that gave me hives, she would often describe her husband the rabbit:

Yes darling, the incessant humming of his rheumatoid arthritis is at once aggravating and admirable. The lummox causes me great grief and great love simultaneously. How incredible are his whiskers…how awful his musky smell…and yet, he’s my love…my rabbit…my friend.