p. 126

It was discovered
this morning.
. They got it out
Nobody liked to talk
It's the - "
shut his mouth
but a man opened
reach it.
His voice

and the top
A black overcoat
buttoned from throat
shoulders stuck out,
weather-coarsened, age-lined
wet with sweat
bloodshot and mad
pink inner membrane
chest by a black -

Holding
out to break his fall,
wooden-faced and
caught the falling man
mouth opened and a little
wrapped parcel dropped
across the floor until a foot