Highway 74 Revisited
On the road again
I read it on the subway. In the morning when I’m coming and
going with my sign. I get at most three pages read each way. The book will last
me a long time at that rate. I want it to.
It already has lasted a long time. It came out in 1974. I read
it that year or soon after when it came
out in paperback. It was a small paperback. A pocket book, they called them.
They could fit in your Levi’s back pocket or your coat pocket. You could tap a song against them in your
coat pocket. Your cigarettes were in
your other pocket.
This book is extraordinary. Then and now.
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