The Bus stops uptown
next to the John Deere.
The step from the paving
into the bus is high.
How did Irene get on the bus？
This is a trouble.
"I am not a tall girl."
She thought she would take the
train on the way back：
"But I， even as the dogs，
feel a yearning
for the infinite. . . .I cannot，
I cannot satisfy that hunger！
I am the daughter of a man and a woman.
I had thought to be more than this.
If it had been left to me. I would much
rather have been the daughter of
a shark."
On the bus Irene talked to a fat
blind woman. They talked about
January White Sales. The blind
woman was going to the Cities