How could she have left without indication

When he has remained angled toward work

So that he and his wife can stay alive?

In the bus window he sees his diaphanous face--the

windows

Of the Hilton, where he has a job in maintenance,

Piercing solidly through its head. He rings the bell.

The idea of her not home, and legally annulled

From his life--her small crotch not tightened to his

desperate