The Orchard Keeper (Vintage International)
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Well, about how old would you say? It ain’t about, the old man said, it’s either. Either eighty-three or eighty-four.
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not knowin a thing ain’t never made it not so.
Charles Ayers
Black swan
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A man gets older, he said, he finds they’s lots of things he can do jest as well without
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Most ever man loves peace, he said, and none better than a old man.
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what I want to know is did the boy know about it or not, and would he know was it his daddy?
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their fingers laced with roots, at one with Tut and Agamemnon, with the seed and the unborn.
Charles Ayers
When we die we go where We were before birth
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overcast sped the evening on.
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the last light out of the gathering dusk.
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the darkening headlands
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the fleeing minions scattering their shadows
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no vestige of that people remains. On the lips of the strange race that now dwells there their names are myth, legend, dust.
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