Incident In The Streets Of The City

January, 1969

Incident in the Streets of the CityPaul Stepped Off the Curb and got hit by a truck. He didn't know at first what it was that hit him; but now, here on his back, under the truck, there could be no doubt. Is it me? he wondered. Have I walked the earth and come here?Just as he was struck, and while still tumbling in front of the truck and then under the wheels, in a kind of funhouse gambado of pain and terror, he had thought: This has happened before. Yet, oddly, it never had. There's a woman, he...