Digital Manuscript ProjectThat Time / Cette fois

[⁁]that time in the Post Office that was another
another refuge out of the cold
& wet that time in the Post Office
pushed open the door like anyone
else and made straight for the
table neither right nor left straight to the
long table with all the forms to fill
[0050] space that could ill be spared a
look around then with some apprehension
at your fellow men & women thanking God
again bad & all as you were you
were not as they till it began to dawn
that for all the attention you were getting
you might as well not have been there at
[0050] all the eyes passing over you and going
through you as though you were so much
thin air never resting on you with the
usual abhorrence but passing by you or
over you or through you as though
you were so much thin air was that
the time or was that another time an
earlier time a later time
[0057|001] 5 s [0057] Silence. [0057|002] Ten seconds. [0058] Breath just audible.
[0059] After 3 seconds eyes open.
C4 [0047] always winter then year after
year or as if it couldn't
die the old year couldn't
end stuck in December day after day the shortest day the longest night
like
time could
go no further earth go no further
[0001] The differentiation of A B C
as shades of the same shd.
be sufficiently conveyed
by diversity of source &
theme. If not it may be
indicated by selective
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