Tempus tacendi, Tempus loquendi

"I know not what thou sayest.
I do not
know the man.
Then began he to curse
and swear saying
‘I know not the man’ "


“You know me Mikey,
I never say nuthin’.”

“Un hunh.”

“I know when
to keep my trap shut,
don’t I Mike?”

“What else?”

“The little guy’s a
snowbird
and he’s hopped.”


“Coppers?”

“Nobody.”

“You an’ me, we got nothin’
to say to each
other.”

He looked at his own hands
hating himself.

The High Window p . 489

curtains and I saw her

fawn-colored
leisure
gold snake in it. Her face

wipe off the gun ?”
she laughed


Then she stopped
said “Yes.”

in the silence
to get a dead
man

What else did you wipe off ?

“Stop it. Stop
you held the
gun.”

She didn’t move.

“Never mind about the prints,”

she moved
slowly
wearing pale green
stitching on it,

with tears.

again

The dark was
pouring through
the blinds
in bars
across the
wall.
The ice
shifted
in my glass
and I was
thinking
about
earthquakes
when
the
telephone
rang.
I took a
drag of
my cigarette
and let it
ring again.

Red Harvest p.25

to see Miss Brand
What name shall I tell
an educated
man’s
wouldn’t mean anything

“Dinah,” the lunger introduced
from San
Francisco
Detective Agency
demise.”

five feet eight
breasted,
round-hipped
she gave me was soft ,
warm,

a girl of
twenty-five
crossed the corners
beginning to make nets
were large eyes,
blue

blue and a bit blood-shot.
- brown - needed trimming
her upper
lip
Her dress was of a particular.