04 December 2009

+ "Standing by herself on the air." +

"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."

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Richard Brautigan, "In Watermelon Sugar"

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