only his slight movement backwards stops me , as he 's out of reach with a shift of air that makes me want to breathe him in forever . she had only been parked for twenty minutes and three different people had already knocked on her window , two asked for change and the third was so drunk that he could n't string a sentence together . laughed as they screamed for mercy . it took me five minutes to guess what she had said , and i doubted myself even then . i take after the old man in that . 