to break their vow of silence to speak two words.

Ten years go by and it’s one monk’s first chance.

He thinks for a second before saying, “Food bad.”

Ten years later, he says, “Bed hard.”

It’s the big day, a decade later.

He gives the head monk a long stare and says,

“I quit.”

“I’m not surprised,”

the head monk says.

“You’ve been complaining

ever since you got here.”