明格斯的外星人

Why would they come to Mingus, anyway? Which is pretty close to nowhere. Wouldn’t nowhere do as well? Or maybe it does. And tiny Mingus, Texas, right there at the edge where nowhere breezes through the curtains of a certain state of mind that lets them in. Exactly here. Exactly these few curbless, bleached, and crumbly asphalt streets that curl back on themselves or run on out into the prairie. These poor houses not too close to one another. Water tower. And a couple of oddly isolated, empty redbrick structures from some earlier and more optimistic era. Nowhere seems to drift through this as through a semipermeable membrane. Certain things get filtered out. …