IX. Three Men213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ovjPQj7F0
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At the edge of the cornfield laid a heap of dry stalk.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9B0xqBRoWd
It laid stale and dehydrated, decomposing in death.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQyh88FyxBz
It crunched beneath the man and his boots in scratchy movements,213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6sIWO150Bg
blasting him with clouds of dust.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSImZcNkgxo
The dust stuck to the man’s moist skin in layers, drying his sweat in213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSCLDYHsiC9
thick coats.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm2OrWgx4iy
His knobby fingers would grasp the wooden helms of his tools, one in213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ58PB3TNMf3
each of his hands, and rub on the sores and blisters that were rotting213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Nd6hUImAJ
away his skin.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3gwW1V95bc
He could feel the warmth his blood gave the wood of his handles,213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVmU01efCwM
the warmth from the constant touch of a man’s rough hands upon them.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ESGTD9I5i
Heat had passed along his sweltering palms so that his clutch was perspiring.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsL0y6kGDOZ
He was feeble and tired but he forced a solid hold around the slick instruments in hand.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkWhkUIlVPI
He let warm blood flow from his wounds to the wood in his clenched213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGG81Sp09af
fist.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlFIhanzHHO
The man’s eyes were red-rimmed and weary.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQUTOs44Xjw
He viewed the scene in delusional blurs.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP1mwQdG8P5
The hot weather baked the ears of corn, bringing puffs of sweet kernels213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp3JS7D4eyK
to the man’s nostrils.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMKqydWHgtl
He breathed in the earthy odor and looked upon his crop.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFNi8NZkdLa
The air was boiling the ground in an aggressive blaze, grilling it so that it213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhiQMpCuodE
was pulsating visible waves of heat beneath the summit of the sun.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHTsxalLOhd
The sweltering temperatures ate away at the man like a starving mammal213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKV9KLYSaGy
eating it’s entrails.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf3FFPKVwKg
The heat enveloped every part of him until he went mad.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPjdSAmd0Qi
His overworked spirit became possessed with insanity.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJsLcwvaLKE
His mind ran wild with dementia and so the man became three men,213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuf4cC6QMJi
three figures, three figments of his own rancid mind.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdjHkeyaV0d
These three men were as real as the farmer was real to himself.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwOsptKsWva
The one man became those three men.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlWuPKvDuIx
The first man was wailing horribly loud sobs and groaning in misery.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ90ewarg2jd
He was a vision of pain.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1KJIUQ6xKG
In black robes that settled around his cradled position, the first man213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5D5aO1Eb6P
cried in the dirt.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHyuW8dk0qv
He bawled in utter hopelessness, unaware of anything other than the213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBp2iv94p6K
deep rooted suffering at the core of his very being.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw5HccgXjNj
Streaking down his filthy face was black fluid that seeped from his eyes213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRl9wJWGjKM
like tears, staining his sight so that all he could see was darkness.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9j8GFt9abt
He did nothing but howl and moan in fits of melancholic torture.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuQc3BymffW
He could channel no hope and no desire in his agonized mind, for the213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiw5DLRKaUt
aching of this soul brought down all of his defenses,213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNY9hYTlf7A
like a vicious illness fashioned to make the greatest men fall into the213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM5yQ8iA8hy
arms of anguish.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz2mNKDJIxy
All that first man understood was a squirming shade of man’s melancholy.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJUXkyG2i7w
Ripped open and maimed, he grieved his torment in convulsions of sorrow.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvPS4r1pF59
The second man stood behind the first, holding a sickle, the iron shaped213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhfjwWTE0av
in a curve like a crescent moon.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcauz91iWh0
He had the most familiar resemblance of the man who owned the plot.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYKXielm627
He was stark naked in the scorching air, bare in all aspects, for he wore213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDgE40FED73
no emotion upon his brow.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs6goxee2Xk
His legs gave him a poised balance and he was god-like, sculpted and213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBcGN3Uubd9
morphed in the name of perfection.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxPciXqKyMH
He was the essence of composure.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRMrC2ILq6k
He peered down and through the lines of growth and he observed the213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8Yy4hq6ZV
weeping man with a deadpan expression.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDDN3LyAyFh
His impassive eyes swept over the land in scrutiny.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLQEX8EdSMT
He said nothing for his stony disposition offered nothing to be said.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmgVhBYNMIp
Like an ancient statue, the second man stood wise and regal.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZe6RBnAdic
He was still and calm, an image of equanimity.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHi8EhAsDTm
The third man was the most peculiar.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ93dUqGvWg7
Standing in tower over the other two men, the third man held a scythe.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvTFGtwa5ps
The tall blade of his weapon jutt from out the wooden staff, angled213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQgbWbdnCze
crosswise behind the third man’s withered body.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMgl1t5omiE
When he raised his scythe you would see his rib bones present themselves, like clenched fingers of a skeleton.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtx7zhfy5DH
He would carve down the rows of corn in swift, ordered movements213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHgM6sSpvbo
with his blade, progressing his unshod steps in stride.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlNQBUeGyAn
He carried out his artistry in habitual repetition, carving a massacre213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOw0zPaXTK6
through continuous resolution.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAmhH8pRex5
He was the epitome of death.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwvsRznY4ZM
His bare feet were mangled and hairy and his toes were long like fingers,213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOyMTFXftOH
digging themselves into the soil like hooks beneath his crooked stance.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5mBOFuzsDw
Clad in ratty, black cloth, his trousers reached his waistline and latched213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtmxY8HqqxN
onto his hips, hiding the broken stance his misshapen legs would reveal.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc1GlXEYCR6
His chest and stomach were freakishly collapsed, as all the bones beneath his skin were out of place, presenting a very disfigured form of213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYT2Ag7S8eA
man.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIYaaJn1ke4
Dark dirt and blood smeared against his blistering skin, skin that slowly213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsLU5Dly716
peeled away in deterioration.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzXO1hjosfQ
Most disturbing was that this third man had no face.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQEUqFB5EzF
His skin molded over where a man’s eyes and nose and mouth would be.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWnz7qVyFr
He had no ears and no hair.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVcLIKPoBoC
Beneath the foul skin that enclosed the the third man was but a body of213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJef5I0psjY
meat.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5V18SUMve5
He displayed the shadow of man against the harsh sunlight213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3HT0fYWBQy
but he was a soulless creature with a flesh crust.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6MksH3Sbyy
All that accompanied his callous head was subtle lumps and bumps in213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTLJLnONFxd
complexion, giving rise to mounds of undeveloped features.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn8QCJFhMaZ
In this aspect, this third man was no man at all, but a mere presence.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9z3EFeUSE3
His senseless existence conditioned his absence from the realities the213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6gaE8FXwR6
other two men experienced.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfsqfLAOgDH
He was forevermore detached from the world entirely.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8uS0S4shCX
The three men seized the stalk in increments, harvesting their work in213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEDhr7pGyqN
three fold one man’s time.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjK50k14mri
They haunched over the field, decrypted and aged far beyond their213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ56xdYVjQ1Q
years,213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXhr6KCSOn6
weak and on the brink of death,213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6u1XYsuE9b
until finally they raked in their collection of completion.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡztCnAhFJL8
The three men then fell towards one another until they became one213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtEcxnMhA4v
man,213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU65qoIJhGy
and that one man stared upon the fresh yield of crop.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6PfGZOIWKb
He had gone through the harvest in a deranged case of brotherhood,213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmTjzczukoO
cutting the field barren in an unending heat.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1eaEMXLlR6
He stared at his strong accomplishment, looking upon the disheveled213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡydTWDUofeB
mounds of soil that he had bred and grew.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXaMYj8iiSl
He thought of when the roots of his corn first raised their stems in213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyuP2tiFFaP
spout,213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlRm9SSDgHa
protruding tall legs of corn that stretched their tassels to the sky.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSapug4u3jq
He thought of when the ears of corn first brought their short silk213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnDyCT73eXe
strands to caress his rough skin.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2UQOegfNJY
He remembered their birth and honored how they had come to their213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhtA9cp24I3
death.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcafNsa66wq
He laid himself in a pile of leaves against the newly cut plants and he213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlOT5wzdeBa
closed his eyelids,213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZDxXXDTRUS
allowing his passing to overtake him if it so wished.213Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwEoqY8hHcf
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