I was just telling that guy about the helicopters in the streets. He didn’t believe me. Wasn’t even listening. Watching the fucking Cowboys. 
It wasn’t like I planned to sit at her table. She was just there, her boyfriend too. They were nice, from Cincinnati, and wanted to talk. They didn’t care that I was dead drunk. She had these wide, innocent eyes, innocent everything. That was the problem. 
She kept leaning in and asking questions, and I kept ordering drinks. And then he was gone somewhere and so were we. I don’t remember much after that. Just walking, going the wrong way, and then being along the river and looking into it.
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When I Know Something
When I know something, I think I own something.
This is about getting what I want, not a phone ringing for me nor the sound of a motorboat in the deep of night, but a sound from my childhood. 
It is lazy and pure, like stepping off a ledge, and is held, just above my memory that I have nothing at all.
The Ecstastic Soul of The Grateful Dead
And so we went to the July 4th Fare Thee Well concert. 
The Grateful Dead, even without Jerry Garcia, played with heart and inspiration.
The sound was almost as great as was the feeling of being back at a show, that feeling of ecstatic calm, where it seems there is nowhere else ever to be, just in the music, surrounded, like a child, soothed, where everything else turns off, except thinking about what they might play next. 
It is a precious, precarious thing that, now gone, has left me melancholy, thinking that they have to do it again – just one more, man – where they just yet might get into a Lazy Lightning-El Paso-Supplication jam.
On The Road Again: To Chicago
The drive from New York to Chicago is a little boring.
Highway 80, somewhere in Pennsylvania, from New York to Chicago.
Detours are required.
And then quickly up to Detroit…
Michigan Central Train Station, Detroit
Even time for a ball game!
On to Chicago.