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- Highway
61 Revisited
- By
Corey Mesler
-
- Driving
north on Highway 61
- the
lights of Clarksdale
- look
like Las Vegas
-
- the way
the surrounding darkness
- ends in
them.
- And
indeed its Pizza Hut, its
- Wendy's,
its Sack and Save
- seem
exotic as palaces.
- Toby
sleeps in the back seat
-
- huddled
over his pillow
- in
delicious fatigue; Cheryl next
- to me
nods, her
-
- chin on
her chest. The Delta
- is a
long black dream,
- the
serenity of India rubber,
-
- the
swallow of a whale.
- Off to
the west a skyrocket explodes.
- It's
10:15, July Fourth, 19something.
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