She was the one who found him. They had thought the noise
was a backfire from a car, and it was not until the next day
that they knew. She went in to play the radio. The blood was
all over his neck and when her Dad came he pushed her out
of the room. She had run into the dark and hit herself with her
fists. And then the next night he was in a coffin in the living-
room. The undertaker had put rouge and lipstick on his face to make him look natural. But he didn't look natural. He was very dead. And mixed with the smell of flowers there was this
other smell so that she couldn't stay in the room. But through ail those days she held down the job. She wrapped packages and handed them across the counter and rung the
money in the till. She walked when she was supposed to walk
and ate when she sat down to the table. Only at first when she went to bed at night she couldn't sleep. But now she slept like
she was supposed to, also.
Mick turned sideways in the seat so that she could cross
Her legs. There was a run in her stocking. It had started
While she was walking to work and she hadspit on it Then
Later the run had gone farther and she had stuck a little
Piece of chewing-gum on the end. But even that didn't
Help. Now she would have to go home and sew. It was hard
To know what she could do about stockings. She wore them
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