The phisical changes were slow at first, then jumped forward in black klunks , falling trhough his slack tissue, washing away the human lines …In his place of total darkness mouth and eyes are one organ that leaps forward to snap with transparent teeth … but no organ is constant as a regards either fuction or position … sex organs sprout anywhere … rectums open , defecate and close … the entire organisme changes color and consistency in split-second adjustment …

The Rube is a social liability with his attacks as he calls them.The Mark Inside was coming up on him and that’s a rumble nobody can cool; outside Philly he jumps out to con a prowl car and the fuzz takes one look at his face and bust all of us.                                               Seventy-two hours and five sick junkies in the cell with us . Now not wishing to break out my stash in front of these hungry coolies , it takes maneuvering and laying of gold on the turkney before we are separate cell. Provident junkies , known as squirrels, keep slashes against a bust. Every time I take a shot I let  a few drops fall into my vest pocket, the lining is stiff with stuff . I had a plastic drobber in my shoe and a safety-pin stuck in my belt . You know how this pin and dropper routine is put down : ” She seized a safety pin caked with blood and rust , gouged a great hole in her leg wich seemed to be opened like an obscene , festering mouth  waiting for unspeakable congress with the dropper which she now plunged out of sight into the gaping wound. But her hideous  galvanized need ( hunger of insects in dry places) has broken the dropper off deep in the flesh of her ravaged thigh ( looking rather like a poster on soil