Le Sommeil du Monstre

Crow Maiden

Starring a beautiful young girl and twenty-three crows.
 She has blonde hair. The crows are intelligent.
The director is obsessed with the
budget (too low). The photographer has fallen
in love with the girl. She can’t stand him. The
crows are patient. The director is a homosexual.
The girl loves him. The photographer
daydreams murder. “One hundred and seventy-five thousand.
I was a fool!” the director says
to himself. The girl has taken to crying a lot
night. The crows wait for their big scene.
And you will go where crows go
and you will know what the crows know.
After you have learned all their secrets
and think the way they do and your love
caresses their feathers like the walls
of a midnight clock, they will fly away
and take you with them.
And you will go where crows go
and you will know what the crows know.
Richard Brautigan