IX. Three Men95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK2hOzrdRs4
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At the edge of the cornfield laid a heap of dry stalk.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbWewMeGzPd
It laid stale and dehydrated, decomposing in death.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDqZyPTtyIv
It crunched beneath the man and his boots in scratchy movements,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzFJNQswF65
blasting him with clouds of dust.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJOAMpl4XK
The dust stuck to the man’s moist skin in layers, drying his sweat in95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVbiCENiRzi
thick coats.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ99rEW4QsDV
His knobby fingers would grasp the wooden helms of his tools, one in95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH3lG6quSXj
each of his hands, and rub on the sores and blisters that were rotting95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ia2PkMmti
away his skin.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjUiGnfFJi9
He could feel the warmth his blood gave the wood of his handles,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJLUEarVjCC
the warmth from the constant touch of a man’s rough hands upon them.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0EgbNue5OZ
Heat had passed along his sweltering palms so that his clutch was perspiring.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnFGSRbjiYP
He was feeble and tired but he forced a solid hold around the slick instruments in hand.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFAF5zL90gv
He let warm blood flow from his wounds to the wood in his clenched95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFyRBp9rmBf
fist.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7e4BdotxzX
The man’s eyes were red-rimmed and weary.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlkpt0Sjar8
He viewed the scene in delusional blurs.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnUuozw9FS0
The hot weather baked the ears of corn, bringing puffs of sweet kernels95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGAJEzdbzQx
to the man’s nostrils.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAKZKk64j92
He breathed in the earthy odor and looked upon his crop.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo5MHTExR4r
The air was boiling the ground in an aggressive blaze, grilling it so that it95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8YBWhgG3xi
was pulsating visible waves of heat beneath the summit of the sun.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmd9rl1i0Z3
The sweltering temperatures ate away at the man like a starving mammal95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXhiaGCvBbM
eating it’s entrails.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwKoZnU40DN
The heat enveloped every part of him until he went mad.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVJi1qrRJDv
His overworked spirit became possessed with insanity.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ZkgS2P1nI
His mind ran wild with dementia and so the man became three men,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwPxwxQjrSN
three figures, three figments of his own rancid mind.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNvFSppxbZf
These three men were as real as the farmer was real to himself.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuPu1N8b9r8
The one man became those three men.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6ubCoKdL7
The first man was wailing horribly loud sobs and groaning in misery.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8lnJffnjY7
He was a vision of pain.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkPlPBM2ljV
In black robes that settled around his cradled position, the first man95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjk0sASkxQj
cried in the dirt.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR6OoOp1gfR
He bawled in utter hopelessness, unaware of anything other than the95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoSUVpEv0Pc
deep rooted suffering at the core of his very being.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKyNW8Kqgc2
Streaking down his filthy face was black fluid that seeped from his eyes95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1HF7yv9BYv
like tears, staining his sight so that all he could see was darkness.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcNDMlmu3xo
He did nothing but howl and moan in fits of melancholic torture.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS4u3EHa2KK
He could channel no hope and no desire in his agonized mind, for the95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP6kiKM4UkN
aching of this soul brought down all of his defenses,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7RUMAGG38O
like a vicious illness fashioned to make the greatest men fall into the95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1DONR55tZu
arms of anguish.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkniBBNrXBP
All that first man understood was a squirming shade of man’s melancholy.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbbPLfeUuup
Ripped open and maimed, he grieved his torment in convulsions of sorrow.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ3fVVJLo0Z
The second man stood behind the first, holding a sickle, the iron shaped95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUKmU1OMr5P
in a curve like a crescent moon.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ6ImPhIasz
He had the most familiar resemblance of the man who owned the plot.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB6PrOfyHCz
He was stark naked in the scorching air, bare in all aspects, for he wore95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYJiLTCLLWe
no emotion upon his brow.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAKZAhdZKmp
His legs gave him a poised balance and he was god-like, sculpted and95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ24OWFxamoH
morphed in the name of perfection.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhTEhr4dGEN
He was the essence of composure.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVzH5TuCIpv
He peered down and through the lines of growth and he observed the95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7AEz8dhZKs
weeping man with a deadpan expression.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDeXepSDu8C
His impassive eyes swept over the land in scrutiny.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5fOPNH2jlW
He said nothing for his stony disposition offered nothing to be said.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2IkZWzJ2MR
Like an ancient statue, the second man stood wise and regal.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCtD5Zs0Wai
He was still and calm, an image of equanimity.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu7tNXZdPAW
The third man was the most peculiar.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQzvCGTbGdx
Standing in tower over the other two men, the third man held a scythe.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmhvZWjLc81
The tall blade of his weapon jutt from out the wooden staff, angled95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh0CPmUfet5
crosswise behind the third man’s withered body.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfHUAJpf8tu
When he raised his scythe you would see his rib bones present themselves, like clenched fingers of a skeleton.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbgtiGA4KbK
He would carve down the rows of corn in swift, ordered movements95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ31UdgFcJJz
with his blade, progressing his unshod steps in stride.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaVeybkL8Mi
He carried out his artistry in habitual repetition, carving a massacre95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoL2pOJhxiX
through continuous resolution.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcNaRB2Du8Q
He was the epitome of death.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkiGEEnsysK
His bare feet were mangled and hairy and his toes were long like fingers,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGAH83QjTVG
digging themselves into the soil like hooks beneath his crooked stance.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1kZwunWk3E
Clad in ratty, black cloth, his trousers reached his waistline and latched95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKTXbEQuetU
onto his hips, hiding the broken stance his misshapen legs would reveal.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6VNO15wbi4
His chest and stomach were freakishly collapsed, as all the bones beneath his skin were out of place, presenting a very disfigured form of95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡibs5pyRcvq
man.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0DoZs4GcZr
Dark dirt and blood smeared against his blistering skin, skin that slowly95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4iHobDm52M
peeled away in deterioration.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBB5su2sDp
Most disturbing was that this third man had no face.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyR742UJwel
His skin molded over where a man’s eyes and nose and mouth would be.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyn4G297KDH
He had no ears and no hair.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIL0NFrpDgz
Beneath the foul skin that enclosed the the third man was but a body of95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpA3rMOQ5eY
meat.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcEylNlnHrM
He displayed the shadow of man against the harsh sunlight95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3t03VHNxsc
but he was a soulless creature with a flesh crust.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3JfQzSE304
All that accompanied his callous head was subtle lumps and bumps in95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQEpjU0YVKO
complexion, giving rise to mounds of undeveloped features.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPQedXkVzZd
In this aspect, this third man was no man at all, but a mere presence.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfGPryYeDPV
His senseless existence conditioned his absence from the realities the95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7RSDSn07iM
other two men experienced.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJQWigdcWs
He was forevermore detached from the world entirely.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA1bco90V9q
The three men seized the stalk in increments, harvesting their work in95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjQqLNPFqDa
three fold one man’s time.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ64COp4Xlgk
They haunched over the field, decrypted and aged far beyond their95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNYrJQC6UOq
years,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqPKSgflKNr
weak and on the brink of death,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVFTP6vH9r5
until finally they raked in their collection of completion.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiRkPBI5GsJ
The three men then fell towards one another until they became one95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJZXQmkt1kW
man,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjlhBpnm0o4
and that one man stared upon the fresh yield of crop.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq5LN0TQcCb
He had gone through the harvest in a deranged case of brotherhood,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWvNwbh8Soe
cutting the field barren in an unending heat.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLJIPsUVAF1
He stared at his strong accomplishment, looking upon the disheveled95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOnRVs7aGWH
mounds of soil that he had bred and grew.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa6hGUYP0jw
He thought of when the roots of his corn first raised their stems in95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiht7biZ23G
spout,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIZnSRDtCKA
protruding tall legs of corn that stretched their tassels to the sky.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbLeLMGyVNY
He thought of when the ears of corn first brought their short silk95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOVCTkRE1jH
strands to caress his rough skin.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8bET2DYjim
He remembered their birth and honored how they had come to their95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDObDkUsf9Q
death.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpLs9lHNIqP
He laid himself in a pile of leaves against the newly cut plants and he95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuqWH25uLZC
closed his eyelids,95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7axpzT4DzW
allowing his passing to overtake him if it so wished.95Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6iWTj0g2YI
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