When You Find Him, Let Us Know

Memorandum

To: File

From: Frank Flounder

Date: 12/16/10

Subject: When You Find Him, Let Us Know


Harvey has not stopped by my office to pick up my mail. He is late. Eventually, I call the mailroom. 

"Yeah, we gonna send somebody," they say.

"I don't want somebody," I say.

"Harvey 'aint reported to work today," they say.

"Where is he?"

"When you find him," they say, "let us know."

***

Somebody has come to collect my mail. I have prepared a half-eaten turkey sandwich that is destined for the Director of Human Resources. Suddenly, I do not feel like sending it.

I call the mailroom and request Harvey's home telephone number. I leave a message asking him to call me back.

"It's about a painting," I say.  

I do not hear back. 


F.F.