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Book One:

In Watermelon Sugar

In Watermelon Sugar

in watermelon sugar the deeds were done and done again as
my life is done in watermelon sugar. I'll tell you about it because
I am here and you are distant.
Wherever you are, we must do the best we can. It is so far to
travel, and we have nothing here to travel, except watermelon
sugar. I hope this works out.
I live in a shack near ideath. I can see ideath out the window.
It is beautiful. I can also see it with my eyes closed and touch it.
Right now it is cold and turns like something in the hand of a
child. I do not know what that thing could be.
There is a delicate balance in ideath. It suits us.
The shack is small but pleasing and comfortable as my life
and made from pine, watermelon sugar and stones as just about
everything here is.
Our lives we have carefully constructed from watermelon
sugar and then travelled to the length of our dreams, along
roads lined with pines and stones.
I have a bed, a chair, a table and a large chest that I keep my
things in. I have a lantern that burns watermelontrout oil at
night.
That is something else. I'll tell you about it later. I have a
gentle life.
I go to the window and look out again. The sun is shining at
the long edge of a cloud. It is Tuesday and the sun is golden.
I can see piney woods and the rivers that flow from those
piney woods. The rivers are cold and clear and there are trout
in the rivers.
Some of the rivers are only a few inches wide.
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 can see fields of watermelons and the rivers that flow
through them. There are many bridges in the piney woods and
in the fields of watermelons. There is a bridge in front of this
shack.
Some of the bridges are made of wood, old and stained silver
like rain, and some of the bridges are made of stone gathered
from a great distance and built in the order of that distance, and
some of the bridges are made of watermelon sugar. I like those
bridges best.
We make a great many things out of watermelon sugar here
ЧI'll tell you about itЧincluding this book being written near
1DEATH.