White Sales

    The Bus stops uptown

    next to the John Deere.

    The step from the paving

    into the bus is high.

    How did Irene get on the bus？

    This is a trouble.

    "I am not a tall girl."

    She thought she would take the

    train on the way back：

    "But I， even as the dogs，

    feel a yearning¹

    for the infinite. . . .I cannot，

    I cannot satisfy that hunger！

    I am the daughter of a man and a woman.

    I had thought to be more than this.

    If it had been left to me. I would much

    rather have been the daughter of

    a shark."

    On the bus Irene talked to a fat

    blind woman. They talked about

    January White Sales. The blind

    woman was going to the Cities