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by Richard Brautigan
Eeverything 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.
Then I could see death and the town and the Forgotten Works and rivers and fields and the piney woods and the ball park and the Watermelon Works.
I saw Old Chuck on the front porch of ideath. He was scratching his head and Charley was in the kitchen buttering himself a slice of toast.
Doc Edwards was walking down the street from Ron's shack and a dog was following behind him, sniffing his footsteps. The dog stopped at one particular footstep and stood there with its tail wagging above the footstep. The dog really liked that one.
The shacks of innoiL and that gang of his lay now only as ashes by the gate to the Forgotten Works. A bird was looking near the ashes for something. The bird didn't find what it was looking for, got tired and flew away.
I saw Pauline walking through the piney woods up toward my shack. She was carrying a painting with her. It was a surprise for me.
I saw some kids playing baseball in the ball park. One of the kids pitching had a good fast ball and a lot of control. He threw five strikes in a row.
I saw Fred directing his crew in the making of a golden plank of watermelon sugar. He was telling somebody to be careful with his end.
I saw Margaret climbing an apple tree beside her shack. She was crying and had a scarf knotted around her neck. She took the loose end of the scarf and tied it to a branch covered with young apples. She stepped off the branch and then she was standing by herself on the air.
Richard Brautigan
The Statue of Mirrors
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