“Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet… Putting her in a wheel barrow and wheeling her down the street.”

“so much depends
upon a red wheel
barrow glazed with rain
water beside the white
chickens”

“After a mile she complained about her feet and asked me to hold the wheel. As I did it she reached down and took off her shoes. Then she took the wheel again and threw one foot over the side of the Ford. At once her dress ballooned out, spanking her face. She tucked it under herself, but even so her brown thighs were exposed even to a pinkish underthing.”

“Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.”

“Put your shoulder to the wheel.”

“Wheels can take you around.
Wheels can cut you down.
We can go from boom to bust.
From dreams to a bowl of dust.
We can fall from rockets' red glare, down to "Brother can you spare…"
Another war.
Another wasteland.
And another lost generation
-- Between The Wheels (1984)”

“She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It differentiated her from the others”

“In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”

“Wheels on fire, rolling down the road, best notify my next of kin, this wheel shall explode!”

“The name on the mailbox was Vera Rivken, and that was her full name. It was down on the Long Beach Pike, across the street from the Ferris Wheel and the Roller Coaster. Downstairs a poolhall, upstairs a few single apartments. No mistaking that flight of stairs; it possessed her odor. The banister was warped and bent, and the grey wallpaint was swollen, with puffed places that cracked open when I pushed them with my thumb.”