Inside Susan

Susan catches the bus into town at ten-thirty a.m. she sits on the back seat. she looks at

The man in front's head and thinks how his fat wrinkled neck is like a large carrot

Sticking out from the collar of his shirt. she adds up the numbers on her bus ticket to

See if they make twenty-one, but they don't. maybe she shouldn't bother going to school at

All, then. her friends will be in the yard with their arms folded on their chests,