IX. Three Men169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJVEoIm2cS4
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At the edge of the cornfield laid a heap of dry stalk.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt2XvQ495vB
It laid stale and dehydrated, decomposing in death.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyNWCk5PcSP
It crunched beneath the man and his boots in scratchy movements,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXLlx082Nsi
blasting him with clouds of dust.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYvCYFxo05o
The dust stuck to the man’s moist skin in layers, drying his sweat in169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNxbTyW7t4j
thick coats.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQLMkWZC4DP
His knobby fingers would grasp the wooden helms of his tools, one in169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4MOyhvEwVG
each of his hands, and rub on the sores and blisters that were rotting169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkB94MQmnmr
away his skin.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoXQ1LuLwC6
He could feel the warmth his blood gave the wood of his handles,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLJ9B9yDC4c
the warmth from the constant touch of a man’s rough hands upon them.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaOy8ez6MMz
Heat had passed along his sweltering palms so that his clutch was perspiring.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡucYUf76eYM
He was feeble and tired but he forced a solid hold around the slick instruments in hand.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo730zfatJE
He let warm blood flow from his wounds to the wood in his clenched169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNQQ9aU87yb
fist.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXU38CVEwrF
The man’s eyes were red-rimmed and weary.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSC9lASG34l
He viewed the scene in delusional blurs.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrbUZr7bluj
The hot weather baked the ears of corn, bringing puffs of sweet kernels169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgGJrSEgY1v
to the man’s nostrils.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTLC3NU94bK
He breathed in the earthy odor and looked upon his crop.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡle25RNJ3ta
The air was boiling the ground in an aggressive blaze, grilling it so that it169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiH0boVaGHi
was pulsating visible waves of heat beneath the summit of the sun.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlydIslvLPw
The sweltering temperatures ate away at the man like a starving mammal169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6fGGWhuW7
eating it’s entrails.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqxtN5fzl8i
The heat enveloped every part of him until he went mad.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUljSQnaGds
His overworked spirit became possessed with insanity.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1AIyH2hEVY
His mind ran wild with dementia and so the man became three men,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ZcnXWezpy
three figures, three figments of his own rancid mind.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaIsPlDeZvQ
These three men were as real as the farmer was real to himself.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjS9HZAm0tX
The one man became those three men.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi63LIUAGUB
The first man was wailing horribly loud sobs and groaning in misery.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFMqNIWRnK3
He was a vision of pain.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJHowg7aSvW
In black robes that settled around his cradled position, the first man169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHUksC8hodz
cried in the dirt.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbLBM2O8Qrz
He bawled in utter hopelessness, unaware of anything other than the169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡALAZffwQSK
deep rooted suffering at the core of his very being.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡArAkrV9lz8
Streaking down his filthy face was black fluid that seeped from his eyes169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4HpVNdX3Mr
like tears, staining his sight so that all he could see was darkness.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJAXLVM9YW1
He did nothing but howl and moan in fits of melancholic torture.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCKwoo86ErT
He could channel no hope and no desire in his agonized mind, for the169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQpgEDyIsuw
aching of this soul brought down all of his defenses,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaGShDgmkq5
like a vicious illness fashioned to make the greatest men fall into the169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡegLNm8YdZG
arms of anguish.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfl2iENeimh
All that first man understood was a squirming shade of man’s melancholy.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCo3dip0avb
Ripped open and maimed, he grieved his torment in convulsions of sorrow.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO4vfpIQMBA
The second man stood behind the first, holding a sickle, the iron shaped169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFiGwTqBGip
in a curve like a crescent moon.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ9bbh24rvN
He had the most familiar resemblance of the man who owned the plot.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdpkglAiGoY
He was stark naked in the scorching air, bare in all aspects, for he wore169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOwa1t0d9yn
no emotion upon his brow.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS4xxrghVuI
His legs gave him a poised balance and he was god-like, sculpted and169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfKVdWoezJ1
morphed in the name of perfection.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNgwg72Ol52
He was the essence of composure.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF7jA6g9ETi
He peered down and through the lines of growth and he observed the169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUdfWkUNOVi
weeping man with a deadpan expression.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1VmfdTSKFx
His impassive eyes swept over the land in scrutiny.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR98i0hNf05
He said nothing for his stony disposition offered nothing to be said.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg6yHhVfJPW
Like an ancient statue, the second man stood wise and regal.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuWVhA6bFED
He was still and calm, an image of equanimity.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS9XslFsYmB
The third man was the most peculiar.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu7IVvE3d9M
Standing in tower over the other two men, the third man held a scythe.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoWxXplU5p3
The tall blade of his weapon jutt from out the wooden staff, angled169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYT0lxF77eh
crosswise behind the third man’s withered body.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5mtyFT9u2P
When he raised his scythe you would see his rib bones present themselves, like clenched fingers of a skeleton.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWlfWmbuiK5
He would carve down the rows of corn in swift, ordered movements169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyu1bSJqG7J
with his blade, progressing his unshod steps in stride.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmFuqbXqtgl
He carried out his artistry in habitual repetition, carving a massacre169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjN51j1V7k7
through continuous resolution.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ904ohYkosN
He was the epitome of death.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsOTEpT5TxO
His bare feet were mangled and hairy and his toes were long like fingers,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmemDnQ4Vmn
digging themselves into the soil like hooks beneath his crooked stance.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5kDyciTvv8
Clad in ratty, black cloth, his trousers reached his waistline and latched169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9STR14dqiT
onto his hips, hiding the broken stance his misshapen legs would reveal.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCHir88rQGg
His chest and stomach were freakishly collapsed, as all the bones beneath his skin were out of place, presenting a very disfigured form of169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeEXRR1edlx
man.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHlaLgNs1b
Dark dirt and blood smeared against his blistering skin, skin that slowly169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeIyVhrK7BA
peeled away in deterioration.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1H0qkoseyO
Most disturbing was that this third man had no face.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHKJ3dS3IB
His skin molded over where a man’s eyes and nose and mouth would be.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmJrjxf9Z9r
He had no ears and no hair.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrpEoxfInn0
Beneath the foul skin that enclosed the the third man was but a body of169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMkWtvdEwBX
meat.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDLMfE4C4GE
He displayed the shadow of man against the harsh sunlight169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDCe3CSvVB5
but he was a soulless creature with a flesh crust.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxiwHJJi2e3
All that accompanied his callous head was subtle lumps and bumps in169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvOtUhwzDbH
complexion, giving rise to mounds of undeveloped features.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡruQq92RwZk
In this aspect, this third man was no man at all, but a mere presence.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6feoFbsFQu
His senseless existence conditioned his absence from the realities the169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLE5dRtWFS1
other two men experienced.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTbLLxYM3t3
He was forevermore detached from the world entirely.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTDOwOykEhY
The three men seized the stalk in increments, harvesting their work in169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzj4LpjlHmK
three fold one man’s time.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Rty3nUnPu
They haunched over the field, decrypted and aged far beyond their169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRcN2VwkGov
years,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiSa6kShjt0
weak and on the brink of death,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6uzARTccKt
until finally they raked in their collection of completion.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhnhnCxGPRl
The three men then fell towards one another until they became one169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGvnxeOqPJa
man,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuO0kmxAYDK
and that one man stared upon the fresh yield of crop.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSMsq7TgyXS
He had gone through the harvest in a deranged case of brotherhood,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNQjQljQtkk
cutting the field barren in an unending heat.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9vUY1wl4zk
He stared at his strong accomplishment, looking upon the disheveled169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHlsK0oIQzc
mounds of soil that he had bred and grew.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMsMww5lYHc
He thought of when the roots of his corn first raised their stems in169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKdc91R8h48
spout,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡry9HPNGcEo
protruding tall legs of corn that stretched their tassels to the sky.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAdAN7ZFqwz
He thought of when the ears of corn first brought their short silk169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVe9VdZpxB
strands to caress his rough skin.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpMYDaO0H2U
He remembered their birth and honored how they had come to their169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWizP2ppLFk
death.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV4dCcbgf0N
He laid himself in a pile of leaves against the newly cut plants and he169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfGpIVC45EC
closed his eyelids,169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡitwoKAYCdy
allowing his passing to overtake him if it so wished.169Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUzZNOvPeBD
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