שאול (intermezzo)

This is my best friend, Blueberry. She's a hippo. She's not a real hippo. Ha! Real hippos aren't pink. Hippo is short for hippopotamus. Hippopotamus means river-horse. You know in what language? Me either it's all Greek to me! Ha! That's my favorite joke every time. I know so much about them because i saw the hippo show on t.v. They mostly live in Africa, but Blueberry's not real so she doesn't live in Africa. But she is my best friend for real. If she was a real hippo she wouldn't be my best friend. She might eat me. Ha! I saw a movie at school with some dancing hippos in dresses. It was silly specially because i know real hippos don't dance. Blueberry never dances even when i play her favorite song. She only just sits and listens quietly. If it's very late in the night sometimes she cries a little tiny bit but only because the lights are out and she thinks i can't see her crying but i don't make fun of her because sometimes i cry a little tiny bit late in the night too because the lights are out and i know she can't see me crying. When she cries i just hold her close and get my umbrella and open it over us and say to her in my quietest nighttime voice "it looks like you have rain drops on your face so i got my umbrella to keep us dry" and that's our favorite joke every time because we both know it can't rain inside. Ha!