The Capybara

Puck began his day with jousting vacuums, an initiative begun by his daddy, who showed him how to ram one vacuum into another.
This was followed with ‘slip vacuums!’, where Puck laughed happily, zooming a vacuum across the kitchen floor toward Collette, and then she sent it back to him.
“Do one! Do one, two, free!” he called out to Collette.
Then came sitting practice, where Collette noticed that Puck had grown a tiny baby dreadlock from sleeping so much on his back. This was, however, easily undone.
After his nap, Puck dribbled his big blue bouncy ball and danced his own sort of jerky march-dance to the Olympic Fanfare.
As OLeif settled Puck down for the night, Collette took another muggy walk around the neighborhood, listening to people talk to each other. Everyone seemed to know each other from different streets over. It was an old neighborhood.
And before OLeif joined Justus of Orange for coffee later that evening, he tried to convince Collette to let him have a capybara.
“They’re good swimmers too,” he was saying. “I’d name him Philip. And, you know how you asked what I’d do if you ever died first? Well, that’s what I’d do. I’d wear pea green coats and walk around old libraries with my capybara and my pipe.”