“the sea is made of blood”

“He fell off the table like a crab looking for the sea.”

“I lost almost all the blood in my body in 1957”

“MAILMAN CAUGHT DRINKING THE BLOOD OF GOD AND TAKING A SHOWER, NAKED, IN ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.”

“It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.”

“Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.”

“I suppose like othersI have come through fire and sword,love gone wrong,head-on crashes, drunk at sea,and I have listened to the simple sound of water runningin tubsand wished to drown”