Roof

the scapegoat eeks, you can hear him from the attic, "eerk" "meerg" "eerk" his name is Zolaf, he goes by Zolaf, and he was born no good. go away, they tell Zolaf. we are talking, they scream in a whisper go away, they tell Zolaf no you can't be here, they scream in a whisper go away, they say go away, they say so Zolaf stays in the attic, even though he grows tall and big, becomes a hunchback so as not to punch a hole on the roof nibbles grand meals stolen at night from the fridge nibbles and smiles and claps in awe with triangular teeth through the hole on the ceiling claps and claps and claps for his kinling, Dulan, Mulan, Julam they are good at things he is not good at they can speak good they are arti- cu-late they can speak prettily, smoothily, prettily muchest munch Zolaf in that attic meerg - eerg - meerg