and proves it with testifying forefinger pointed up at the white wincing face by reciting everything he knows about him , from earliest childhood , his favorite ice cream flavors , the names of his early friends , sledding in forest park with his mother , precocious masturbation , once ran a fever of 105 and his mother lit candles for him in the church , his favorite toys , comic-books , movies , how he nearly drowned in a river , and his mother nearly died at that , the length of his appendicitis scar , recites three of his worst poems , tells how his mother rolled on the floor when she saw the dead girl in the room , how hed vampired her out of a decade in a year , how he smashed his mothers car and kicked her , kicked his loving mother , exploited her , drained her of money and beauty .