Bookstore

Kyle had never read On the Road, so I bought a copy for him.

It's up in the poetry room at City Lights bookstore, where this picture of Kyle was taken.

He's promised to read it.

We both sat for awhile in the poetry room and read. I read poems from Jack Gilbert's big Collected book and Kyle read ee. cummings whom he'd never read before.

I read Jack Gilbert poems until the next poem I read resembled the last poem I'd read. I looked over at Kyle who closed the book he was reading and put it back on the shelf

Then we walked down the stairs past the photographs of the beat poets. I paid for On the Road and we walked out into the night.

Kyle flew home to LA the next day.