Three Love Stories

Lake

A deep lake provides no promise of a bottom and this is important to make note of and this is important especially to the casual reader or those with a less succinct understanding of mystery and the life wrapped around it.



Corn

The town that you are from is a town in the county with the highest corn production of any county in the state with the most corn production in the country. This is something to take pride in and as a result many townsfolk and county folk take pride in the fact that so much corn is produced in such an efficient and productive manner. When you were young you ate a lot of corn and you were corn fed and when you misbehaved you had blackberry stains under your eyes and because of this you now have blackberry stains in the brain. When you now eat corn you have childhood in your eyes and you have childhood and you mostly eat potatoes. The high production of corn has led to many studies of the soil and many mysteries and rumors about the land that was blessed and the families that were blessed by the land and the families that bathe in corn bounty. Picking the wild blackberries that grew behind the tennis court and wild blackberry seeds lined our teeth and when we met there we were held and when we met there we held on and we held onto each other.



Summer

The smell of life comes from the ground and the trees and the life perfume rises from the ground and all of the snow has melted. In the summer you say sorry very often and the summer air tastes like nickels and sorry. Vegetables grow in rows and there is even some lettuce. You say sorry I am just dull in the skull. With a grueling day in the garden a dip in the pond can often be sufficient. You are caught trembling in a towel and I can rub your shoulders and I could rub your back and can you remember how warm the life was around me?

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Walt John Pearce lives in the mountains.