MS-UoR-1477-1

[0053] and was it then was it then

[0030] turning point?

[0033] who it was saying what you ^were saying
whose head ^{it was} you were [shut] ^pent up in
whose [face] xxx xxx xxx ^{and all the rest of}
it had you the way you were
xxx and all the rest of the
[xxxting] ^{ashes etcetera} had you the way you were
[txx]

[0030] [then was it]

[0030] turning-point that was a great
word with you before they dried up
[no] [questions left xxx pxxx
xxx xxx you squirmed] dead [end]
[xxx xxx xxx xx xxx] ^{[be it xxx]} and
you squirming like a worm on
the same old spit from the moment
they cut your stalk

[0033] was it then ^{that the time} you began ^{last infirmity} not to know
yourself from Adam began trying
not to know yourself from Adam
no idea who it was saying what
you were saying whose head ^skull it was
you were pent up in whose [ashes]
etc. had you the way you were was
that the time or was that another time

[0033] [xx] sitting there with the portraits of
the dead [⁁]^{black with[ dirt & age] antiquity and the dates on the frame in case you got the century wrong} not believing it was you
till they put you out in the rain
at closing time [0036] and you went the
old rounds trying ^{[xxx xxx]} how that would
[xxx] work how never having

[0036] been would work the old rounds
[turning you into] trying to turn you
into it ^{tottering & muttering all over the parish} till the words dried up and
the head dried up & the legs dried up
[up or the] whosever they were or
[they locked] it ^gave up [whatever] ^whoever it was

[0040] that time you took shelter from the
rain in the Public Library always
winter then always raining shelter
from the [⁁]^{cold &} rain in the Public Library
and

[0040] always winter then always raining
[xxx wet & cold] ^{[rain & dark]} wet & cold year
after year always [going] in somewhere

[0033] put you out in the rain
at closing time
or [whosever] they
were

[0056] born & died in no time
[at a rather] old age
[0036] [locked] it up whatever it
was