The Right Column
Down in
Cambridge at
the Harvard
Book Store
I found a book
that meant the
world to me.

It meant the world
so I bought the
whole world
for 7.93
plus tax.

But it was 
in Brattleboro
that I found
a first edition
which is a 
paperback
because they didn't
think enough
of Kerouac
to publish
hardcovers
of all his work.
They thought
he was a jerk.

Maybe he was.
But I love
him
anyway.


July 25, 2009
-BP