The Country Diary Of A Subway Conductor

"O get him out of there!" What if it cost 25c
 to wake up in the morning? A dollar, ten dollars?
 I'd pay it all the way to the poor house. It's not made
 if it's made in Roanoke. Night pulling up in front of
 the house like a bus. It came at me with shears. Her
 sweater had faces, famous faces knitted all over it.
 The porch swing ticked off Central Daylight time.
 "How many hours do you think it'll take me to smoke this
 cigarette?" she said with a smile. The smell of fried
 food came drifting out one of the castle windows.
 "Lets go around back" I said "my brother buried some
 stuff back there." We ducked down and walked through
 the black bushes. My shoe made a sucking sound in
 the turf. "He can afford anything" I said "he's got
 dogs that blow on trumpets." "Priests!" she cussed.
 Thunder cracks over Ben Franklin's shop. Who wrapped
 my dreams in a blanket and led them outside to the black
 book in the yard? "Hey what indian tribe occupied
 southern california? They were a lucky bunch of fellers!"
 Sting Bible, More Sea Bible, Knur & Spell. In moments
 downhill, towards sleep in the stillwater shop. Imagining
 places I was almost sure I'd never been & had taken to
 assuming were the memories of my grandfather somehow
 deposited in my mind. They were there and gone, just before
 I could get my bearings, catch any names or find out
 where the hotel was. Just a pile of glass shavings that
 could never be reassembled into the gone order
 of buildings & the shade pouring off of them. "WATER!"