He lives in a quiet world, where the only sound is the ringing in his ears. He comes and goes as he pleases, taking long walks alone by the waterfront. He’s staring at a sheet of paper the teacher handed back to him. In red, across the top, is a ZERO. No words, no explanation. The assignment was to write a sentence using a chosen word. Moses could still smell the teacher’s alcoholic breath as he handed back the paper. “The cuckoo in the cuckoo clock says cuckoo to you!”
The Cuckoo in the Cuckoo Clock
An excerpt from The Book of Moses
