"Paul Di Filippo - Up Around the Bend" - читать интересную книгу автора (Di Filippo Paul) Up Around the Bend
by Paul Di Filippo Story Copyright (C) 2007, Paul Di Filippo. Images Copyright (C) 2007, Rudy Rucker. N,NNN Words. Moving to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches…. —Presidents of the United States, “Peaches” Eternal waters away From the cities of nine Day’s night whose towers will catch In the religious wind Like stalks of tall, dry straw… —Dylan Thomas, “Author’s Prologue” Tomorrow’s just an excuse away. “Thirty-three” Heading up around the bend, leaving the sinking ship behind, hoping to reach the place where the neons turn to wood, and the water tastes like wine: a brand-new game, a crystal day: Afternoon August sunlight splashed the drowsing land. Space and time seemed stunned, slowed. Cathedrals of wild grape hosted congregations of small twittering birds. Water bearing an intermittent film of rainbow’d oil and floating paper debris rilled along a small frond-carpeted slough, the litter a factitious fleet sailing toward some unknown port. A rust-girdered billboard spiked into the earth reared up like a fragment of some ancient border fortification. The line of dead and abandoned cars along the road’s green margin afforded slim pickings for stragglers in the great exodus. A grease-stained Pendleton blanket in burgundy checks; a transistor radio thick as a brick, whose weak-batteried reception brought in only static; wind-perused copies of Ramparts, the Oracle, the East Village Other,Silver Surfer, Make and Wired; a half-empty bottle of Tang; a ripped T-shirt bearing Hendrix’s portrait, and one advertising Desperate Housewives; a lurid gatefold album missing its vinyl contents; CDs in cracked jewel cases; a cardboard six-pack of Fanta soda in thick glass bottles; a BlackBerry with a smashed screen; a fringed leather vest; a Polar Fleece pullover; a torn draft card; a big Mars bar blazoned 5¢; a snack package of dried green peas rich with Japanese script; an empty can of |
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