IX. Three Men165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ZW6T7Ky0k
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At the edge of the cornfield laid a heap of dry stalk.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ5JyhH3FXw
It laid stale and dehydrated, decomposing in death.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrv8RMdCmbf
It crunched beneath the man and his boots in scratchy movements,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmhs5Bc9KDK
blasting him with clouds of dust.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU3SbqoNR4S
The dust stuck to the man’s moist skin in layers, drying his sweat in165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0X9PVfo2bB
thick coats.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5NOYm4zx7e
His knobby fingers would grasp the wooden helms of his tools, one in165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKGUCmSgET9
each of his hands, and rub on the sores and blisters that were rotting165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqE8Y1dadVm
away his skin.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsb98Iwskmt
He could feel the warmth his blood gave the wood of his handles,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvqyfv2EgmC
the warmth from the constant touch of a man’s rough hands upon them.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4LMeiU9OwU
Heat had passed along his sweltering palms so that his clutch was perspiring.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyaQYaVAYfV
He was feeble and tired but he forced a solid hold around the slick instruments in hand.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqCAHWckHTA
He let warm blood flow from his wounds to the wood in his clenched165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnbkNtMqjzE
fist.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8IeJXgjVYe
The man’s eyes were red-rimmed and weary.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Kmd6KyLBd
He viewed the scene in delusional blurs.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡobDUAKfPe7
The hot weather baked the ears of corn, bringing puffs of sweet kernels165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6tSSR1ocmx
to the man’s nostrils.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf9xeYxsAHk
He breathed in the earthy odor and looked upon his crop.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUeaNUhfj4g
The air was boiling the ground in an aggressive blaze, grilling it so that it165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnkODq3H3RL
was pulsating visible waves of heat beneath the summit of the sun.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjId2NmlY1D
The sweltering temperatures ate away at the man like a starving mammal165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJGZF7x1MMc
eating it’s entrails.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQyx2CasA4k
The heat enveloped every part of him until he went mad.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkAOO0MA2Sl
His overworked spirit became possessed with insanity.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEln4ntfau1
His mind ran wild with dementia and so the man became three men,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0udQNMrZ5k
three figures, three figments of his own rancid mind.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡerGCzFGilk
These three men were as real as the farmer was real to himself.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBDnQlbFJbJ
The one man became those three men.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTwGw1gniZU
The first man was wailing horribly loud sobs and groaning in misery.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBUoR4CyFeG
He was a vision of pain.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXL789Vl4Ku
In black robes that settled around his cradled position, the first man165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFL8KKbK6S1
cried in the dirt.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuTFnQi9yV3
He bawled in utter hopelessness, unaware of anything other than the165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEhIkn6O8YX
deep rooted suffering at the core of his very being.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNioMYQpuaI
Streaking down his filthy face was black fluid that seeped from his eyes165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqr0ojPfunW
like tears, staining his sight so that all he could see was darkness.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi7vXE8sR8O
He did nothing but howl and moan in fits of melancholic torture.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC9bwBjCRUZ
He could channel no hope and no desire in his agonized mind, for the165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGZEiGS07eW
aching of this soul brought down all of his defenses,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPwx8fHJuQz
like a vicious illness fashioned to make the greatest men fall into the165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAFdcSB9lvw
arms of anguish.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW1lRa4NqyD
All that first man understood was a squirming shade of man’s melancholy.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbP8Pmkui2i
Ripped open and maimed, he grieved his torment in convulsions of sorrow.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNAdHCTUzcg
The second man stood behind the first, holding a sickle, the iron shaped165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAow9zt9SFD
in a curve like a crescent moon.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsO4rcoZPWK
He had the most familiar resemblance of the man who owned the plot.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWkd1EEFdJp
He was stark naked in the scorching air, bare in all aspects, for he wore165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkC9cIzZqnL
no emotion upon his brow.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ78KWYeIUcT
His legs gave him a poised balance and he was god-like, sculpted and165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjtGH9iKllf
morphed in the name of perfection.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLjTgrTK8yE
He was the essence of composure.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡupbEiNtm11
He peered down and through the lines of growth and he observed the165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2NiPe9OBRE
weeping man with a deadpan expression.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqFAhczgFw0
His impassive eyes swept over the land in scrutiny.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTXPXVjaZNp
He said nothing for his stony disposition offered nothing to be said.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB1aGFVcThX
Like an ancient statue, the second man stood wise and regal.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY0iw4JEbLY
He was still and calm, an image of equanimity.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1AMidFYcOo
The third man was the most peculiar.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUsSEK1QyjJ
Standing in tower over the other two men, the third man held a scythe.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWVL80Br9x1
The tall blade of his weapon jutt from out the wooden staff, angled165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡayCROtNjHY
crosswise behind the third man’s withered body.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3gByKrSdph
When he raised his scythe you would see his rib bones present themselves, like clenched fingers of a skeleton.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5icCP1UCmc
He would carve down the rows of corn in swift, ordered movements165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrFBw2JMDvZ
with his blade, progressing his unshod steps in stride.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlE1XHo4jSF
He carried out his artistry in habitual repetition, carving a massacre165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHBOJ93LmdC
through continuous resolution.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5TZzO0xDYk
He was the epitome of death.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbgzyIRujdD
His bare feet were mangled and hairy and his toes were long like fingers,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡporZ248IQF
digging themselves into the soil like hooks beneath his crooked stance.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd9PjNf4S67
Clad in ratty, black cloth, his trousers reached his waistline and latched165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBgpaQxYhq2
onto his hips, hiding the broken stance his misshapen legs would reveal.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxUFvxoNz3k
His chest and stomach were freakishly collapsed, as all the bones beneath his skin were out of place, presenting a very disfigured form of165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDvrI8iGtlQ
man.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbFcnFXCYWg
Dark dirt and blood smeared against his blistering skin, skin that slowly165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEKeFzy8yas
peeled away in deterioration.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa41xngl3qa
Most disturbing was that this third man had no face.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdvBj4mFr1M
His skin molded over where a man’s eyes and nose and mouth would be.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE0cD6WpOer
He had no ears and no hair.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ06s27CIcRg
Beneath the foul skin that enclosed the the third man was but a body of165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkH6eG6t3vc
meat.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ndJOTMobW
He displayed the shadow of man against the harsh sunlight165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh75eB1oUDM
but he was a soulless creature with a flesh crust.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAfQL1Vo1XI
All that accompanied his callous head was subtle lumps and bumps in165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzHLTtGmex
complexion, giving rise to mounds of undeveloped features.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOQiTbmhMft
In this aspect, this third man was no man at all, but a mere presence.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSC7RtIBXRf
His senseless existence conditioned his absence from the realities the165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyrl2QDFiJz
other two men experienced.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRmjhFBWYAQ
He was forevermore detached from the world entirely.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡukRPHPpyyK
The three men seized the stalk in increments, harvesting their work in165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQ5FX1RpG1
three fold one man’s time.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGACsAVf3Pv
They haunched over the field, decrypted and aged far beyond their165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUjIkxH97wD
years,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2CPZnuY7yZ
weak and on the brink of death,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjr6arsNfsH
until finally they raked in their collection of completion.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsiaiQ5iMqt
The three men then fell towards one another until they became one165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyRKhjQAI6Z
man,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzfz1aYV2ih
and that one man stared upon the fresh yield of crop.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVOetldJHWk
He had gone through the harvest in a deranged case of brotherhood,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdjTK8VETXx
cutting the field barren in an unending heat.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡceiln3rzWG
He stared at his strong accomplishment, looking upon the disheveled165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhVdBVn4yM6
mounds of soil that he had bred and grew.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5MtK9cIypz
He thought of when the roots of his corn first raised their stems in165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWtDvaL6nKN
spout,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfwGREHjr2d
protruding tall legs of corn that stretched their tassels to the sky.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4CMRnzG6yq
He thought of when the ears of corn first brought their short silk165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz3vIr4ljV7
strands to caress his rough skin.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPreThKPUfY
He remembered their birth and honored how they had come to their165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQfGzBUWQ3x
death.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmORUu8YAvf
He laid himself in a pile of leaves against the newly cut plants and he165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0uvEPh4AMf
closed his eyelids,165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ61FNbXioUX
allowing his passing to overtake him if it so wished.165Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ99xI3g34Ln
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