It's killing me that I can't remember...

[treyplus20]

Yesterday, for no apparent reason, I snippet from a King short story popped into my head and I've since scoured my collection trying to find it and reread the story (or maybe poem, but I'm almost positive it was a short story). Hopefully someone here will recognize the story and can help me out with the name or collection...

What I remember is just a single line where the narrator is speaking about tall, thin men who hide behind telephone poles. I'm (almost) positive it's from a King story but for the life of me I can't remember which one. Does this ring any bells with anyone?

Thanks in advance!

Trey
"I know tall people. Step away I tell you, I know very tall people!"

[wally wonder]

yeah, vaguely....oranges and lemons say the bells of st. clemons...it does ring some small bell in memory and maybe my ding-dong rang for no apparent reason other than i bumped it w/my elbow....haven't looked, but the man in black...was that the name of it, that kid, fishing....that man....heh heh! it probably isn't, just one of those things...but then, i watched a lot of looney tunes and i might be remembering my cartoon days

[GNTLGNT]

For some reason(and God knows with the pustulent stew that is my brain, it's hard to tell), that puts me in mind of something from "Low Men in Yellow Coats"-but I think that's way off base too...

[catnoel]

Could it be Paranoid: A chant from Skelton Crew? There is mention of tall people and people hiding. Give it a shot and let me know!!

[guido tkp]

those...and of course...the regulators...coulda been a stray thought from there...but, i'm thinking low men (weren't there were some in the talisman...black house) either way.

[no bounce no play]

I was thinking Low Men in Yellow Coats too... I hope GG's pustulent stew isn't contageous

[~Ally~]

Reminds me also of reading about the "low men" in "Hearts in Atlantis."
Have you tried that collection?
Good luck, and let us know when/if you discover it.

[jcasey]

Thats what I keep thinking too...Hearts in Atlantis...low men in yellow coats. and i swear to God, one of them lives in my town and drives a white caddy....

[JellybeanJay]

The quote above makes me think of The Straw Men by Michael Marshall

[scfaulkner]

This is a very old post, but it was never conclusively resolved. It is from the short story collection Skeleton Crew.
It is indeed from the poem Paranoid: a Chant. The line is...
"Step away, I know tall people
Step away, I know very tall people"
Or something very close to that.