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The speaker describes white sheets and a red glow, then asks why they lack the money or guts to love a woman with burns on half her body.

The speaker says no one is nervious before describing the woman's burns. By asking for money or guts, the speaker links the difficulty of loving her to both means and willingness.

The page opens 'The sheets are very white, but it is / dim', then the dimness becomes 'a red glow', 'No one is nervious', and 'half her body has / been burned badly'. The speaker breaks out 'God why can't I / have the money or guts to love her...' and places it all 'In Pittsburgh on the Hill.'

The white sheets and the burned body suggest a sickbed, and the plain statement of injury gives way to a confession of failed means and failed courage. The closing line anchors the private grief in a Pittsburgh neighborhood and ends the notebook on an unresolved plea.