In watermelon sugar the deeds were done and done as my life is done in watermelon sugar.

– Richard Brautigan

In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan @ Indiebound

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In watermelon sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.

I know a river that is half-an-inch wide. I know because I measured it and sat beside it for a whole day. It started raining in the middle of the afternoon. We call everything a river here. We’re that kind of people.

I sat down on couch by the river. There was a statue of grass beside the couch. The blades were made from copper and had been turned to their natural color by the rain weight of years.

Pauline started mopping up the blood and wringing it out into a bucket. When the bucket was almost full of blood, inBOIL died. ‘I am IDEATH,’ he said.

‘You’re an asshole,’ Pauline said.

EVERYTHING IS REFLECTED in the Statue of Mirrors if you stand there long enough and empty your mind of everything else but the mirrors, and you must be careful not to want anything from the mirrors. They just have to happen.

An hour or so passed as my mind drained out. Some people cannot see anything in the Statue of Mirrors, not even themselves.