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The Old Man Told Me

gammasandgerunds:

There was a movie theater here once. It played silent films. It was like watching the world through dark glasses on a rainy evening.
     One night the piano player mysteriously disappeared. We were left with the storming sea that made no sound, and a beautiful woman on a long, empty beach whose tears rolled down silently as she watched me falling asleep in my mother’s arms.

—Charles Simic, Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell