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by Richard Brautigan
How many stops?
How many stops?
How many stops?
To the reindeer
station?
Yesterday I bought four peaches though I didn't need them. When I went into the grocery store I didn't have any interest in peaches. I wanted to buy something else but I can't remember now what it was.
I was walking through the fruit section to get what has been forgotten when I saw the peaches. Peaches were not my destination but I stopped and looked at them, anyway. They were beautiful peaches but still that wasn't reason enough for me to buy them. I have seen a lot of good-looking peaches in my time.
Without thinking I picked up one of the peaches to feel how firm it was, and it felt just right, but hundreds of peaches over dozens of years have felt the same way.
What was going to cause me to buy peaches that I did not need?
Then I smelled a peach and it smelled just like my childhood. I stood there traveling back as if on a railroad train into the past where a peach could be an extraordinary event, almost like a reindeer station with a herd of deer waiting patiently for the train on a summer's day and all carrying bags of peaches to the end of the line.
Richard Brautigan
The Tokyo-Montana Express
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