MS-UoR-1477-1

[0053] that time
when you went into the Public
Library out of the cold & wet was
that the time what was it then
you were never the same after
something to do with dust was
it then that last try nothing else
left to try

[0053] sitting at the table big round
table with a lot of old ones reading
their books & not a sound to be
heard [0056] only the leaves turning
and then something to do with dust
whole place suddenly full of dust

[0056] opened your eyes and nothing but
dust nothing to be seen from floor
to ceiling only dust xxx and not
a sound only come & gone come
& gone no one come & gone in no
time

[0030] never looked back after that

[0030] turning-point that was a great
word with you before they dried
up you squirming on the same
old spit ever since they lugged
you out never xx xxx dark and only
one the first & last that time

[0030] you were curled up like a worm in
the xxx in the xxx ^{[place = supralinear] slime} in the dark
& xxx & they lugged you out ^{[place = inline] & dried you off}
& straightened you up that was
your turning-point never had
another after that never looked
back after that

[0047] another stop that winter was in
the Post Office it xxxe xxx xight
pushed open the door like anyone
else and took a seat at the
table with the telegram forms &
the postal-order forms & the registered
letter forms

that time last ^{[place = supralinear] what} time
no time but the one time

[0056] come & gone come & gone ^{[place = infralinear] come & gone}
born & died in no born & died
get me born & died in no
time